Read the lawsuit: United States v. Apple

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The US Department of Justice announced contiguous that it’s suing Apple for illegally monopolizing the smartphone marketplace and utilizing its presumption “to extract much wealth from consumers, developers, contented creators, artists, publishers, tiny businesses, and merchants.”

In the 88-page suit, which was filed successful the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey, the Justice Department alleges that Apple is utilizing a assortment of unfair tactics to entrench its marketplace presumption and restrict innovation. These see blocking alleged “Super Apps,” which would marque it easier for customers to power betwixt smartphone platforms, imposing an effectual prohibition connected unreality streaming services for contented similar games, degrading the acquisition for cross-platform messaging apps, restricting the compatibility of non-Apple smartwatches with its phones, and barring third-party developers from accessing the iPhone’s tap-to-pay diagnostic to connection their ain integer wallets.

The suit comes arsenic Apple has been forced to reevaluate galore of these long-standing policies successful the European Union owed to the bloc’s Digital Markets Act. Although European regulators decided against forcing Apple to unfastened up iMessage, the institution is nevertheless present required to let third-party app stores connected the iPhone successful the EU and to let developers entree to the device’s tap-to-pay functionality.

Check retired the afloat substance of the Department of Justice’s filing below: