US Senator Claims Apple is Monopolizing on Smartphones Through 'Green Texts'

Tech Times— US Senator Elizabeth Warren did not mince her words when she said Apple has a "monopoly on smartphones," as evident with the iPhone iMessage.

9to5Mac—Elizabeth Warren on green texts: Apple is ruining relationships. Senator Elizabeth Warren has tweeted a somewhat bizarre one-minute video in which she says that green texts are “ruining relationships” and that this is “just one of the dirty tactics that Apple uses to keep a stranglehold on the smartphone market.” Warren uses the to-camera piece to voice her support for the DOJ’s antitrust lawsuit against Apple, but has chosen a rather peculiar argument to do so more

ETtech.com—Judge grills US and Google on antitrust claims. The judge overseeing a landmark U.S. antitrust challenge to Google tried to poke holes in both sides' cases during closing arguments Thursday, as he weighs a ruling that could reshape the technology industry. Judge Amit P. Mehta was presiding over the first day of closing arguments in the most consequential tech antitrust case since the U.S. government sued Microsoft in the late 1990s. The Justice Department has sued Google, accusing it of illegally shoring up a monopoly in online search. Google...

DutchNews.nl—Apple faces Dutch claim for slowing down iPhones. Two Dutch claim organisations are starting a legal case against Apple for deliberately slowing the operating systems for the iPhone 6, 7 and first generation SE iPhones. The models were released between 2016 and 2018 and ConsumentenClaim says, Apple provided users with software updates that reduced performance and concealed an underlying battery defect. “This means the iPhones were slower and did not work as they should. And Apple users were not told,” the foundation said, which is working with...