Why the United States is Suing Apple

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[willhudson]

Am i tripping or is there a small pro Apple bias in this video? The quality of argument seems unusual for polymatter

[GopiKrishna]

A weak video that has me questioning your previous videos.

1. You haven't talked about competing industry standards like RCS that support typing indicators, read receipts, high res media, E2E encryption etc. Apple greatly resisted implementing this & finally is doing in iOS18. I suspect this lawsuit is one of the main motivators.

2. Claiming that Alphabet has split Android, Search & Gmail into adversarial products is patently false. They, along with Drive/Docs form the backbone of integrated Google software ecosystem.

3. DOJ claims on super apps literally comes from internal Apple presentation that states

"Apple cited super apps as a “major headwind” to boosting iPhone sales in countries where they’re popular because of “[l]ow stickiness” and “[l]ow switching costs.”"

[MZachary]

An unusually bad poly matter video... The iMessages section completely misses the point. Green bubbles are unecrypted and bad (low image quality) because apple makes it that way. Ignoring the RCS standard for so long was a choice they made to incentivize users from leaving apple and theyve only decided to now include some features of RCS due to increase scrutiny from the DoJ. Andriod users texting each other dont use SMS because it hasnt been the standard for years

[gruffysnuggles]

The fact that right to repair isnt mentioned is crazy. Apple knowingly designs products that are not repairable and incentivizes their customer base to purchase the new iPhone every year. I havent read the the DOJ suit, but if that isnt mentioned on there, they completely missed the biggest argument against Apple and their anti-consumer behavior.

Edit: 1) for the people commenting how it's "not just Apple" doing this, they were the people that started making their phones more and more inaccessible each year and other companies followed suit with each passing year because they saw it worked. Apple makes stupid amounts of money on people even if they're just a trade in from the previous years' models. They make even more on their awful repair service that is overpriced and under delivers.

2) to the people saying that anti-consumer behavior isn't the same as a monopoly, and therefore isn't in the suit as such, ultimately misses the entire point of the argument here. You are getting screwed just the same, you have less access to quality phones at a reasonable price, you have less ability to fix your own phone and only having 2 major players in the field hurts competition.

3) "I've had my iPhone for x years and it works just fine!" Cool. Nobody asked lol.

4) If you're a person that truly cares about the environment and ownership of things at purchase, then I highly encourage you to watch Rossman Repair Group and High Jeffreys on YT. Both creators highlight the core issues with these devices and why ultimately you shouldn't buy them. For those that are old enough, phone used to have a back panel and a battery that you could just pop out and replace with ease, since this was a part that wore down first on most phones. All new higher end phones LACK this invaluable feature now. IPhones have an adhesive around their perimeter where after you heat dry it open, it will never seal the same again, making it less resistant to the environment after the repair, even if only swapping out a battery. Apple's attempts at making a repair kit that you can rent are so clearly an attempt to appease regulators and to curtail further actions against them like the EU did.

[archienewling]

I think you have missed the point on the messaging section at least, RCS would allow all messages to be encrypted. Apple being forced to allow interoperability with other key standards (RCS) does not stop them from being able to offer higher integration with their own system it just stops them from deliberately reducing the quality for everyone else.

[manasladdha]

The worst thing about Apple is that they have a monopoly over the repair industry as well. They do not allow independent repair shops access to parts, and overcharge for repair. You should have included that in your video. Louis Rossmann has been advocating for Right to Repair for quite some time.

[reloadedditto]

It seems like this video idea came straight out of Apple's HR department. I think you missed the entire point of what the lawsuit is claiming and why apple is being Anti-Competitive.

[enryhen]

Bro… what’s going on with this video? The super apps argument isn’t valid because the original white paper states that “Apps that create alternate desktops/homescreen environments will be rejected” and it’s NOT even about Super Apps. It is very likely referring to the Android launchers that are available for users to create custom versions of their home screen environments (like completely copying the iOS home screen styles). It has absolutely NOTHING to do with Super Apps like Wechat.
And the green bubble argument is missing the point - the fact that it creates a barrier that forbids android users to receive the same treatment in traditional messaging means like SMS, but NOT other cloud messaging services like WhatsApp or Signal. Apple has JUST recently added the RCS messaging feature, which enables Android and iPhone users to react and send high def. media in messages. Even this would be a much better argument. Tbh, It feels kinda off that Polymatter misses the point that far.

Edit: Thanks for the likes. Fixed errors.
Fun fact, I myself is using an iPhone, and had used two androids in the past.

[willhudson]

Polymatter casually making unfair arguments to defend the largest corporation in the world

[jeidustry]

For a channel concerned with high quality unbiased reporting, this video sure stunk. The ground news sponsorship being super ironic

[BenBe]

After the content of this video I was honestly expecting the sponsor to be Apple.

[KiranRajaJoshi]

I've watched your videos for years, but the arguments in this video were so poor, it made me question all the previous videos. I agree the DOJ could have done more, but ignoring the harm to consumers when a company has such control is misleading viewers. Apple continuing to take actions to not only maintain their monopoly but expand it in other markets (some only emerging) is very harmful to consumers and potential growth of various markets.

[lgdcommanderchen]

NGL.... This video misses a lot of point, and just seems to be defending Apple. The point about Green Bubble A bit dissapointing, because I thought Polymatter is a neutral, non-biased source of information :I

[lomiification]

People liked their phone services under Bell, but then realized that they didnt like it after seeing how the broken up anti-trust version was better and cheaper

[sniedendepoes]

$2000 has been deposited on your AppleID account

[Scorialimit]

Disabling dislikes cotinues to be the worst decision youtube ever made

[lus]

I think that this vídeo fundamentally misses the point of it all, is not what users are getting is what users are missing, things could be so much better without the monopoly of apple every time that a monopoly has been taken back the users benefit

[Jia-Tan]

@PolyMatter - I think you should read the comments, take this video down, revise it and reupload it. You have not delivered an impartial summary of this topic.

[justinterested]

To System Integration:
Making communications possible to competitors does not mean they have to gift away their features. The only thing apple has to do is to make specifications how the required Data is Transmitted. If Apple thinks that Making it complicated is better for some reason, they can still make it complicated.

The communication is there (apple uses it). Apple is just holding it hostage. No one is forcing apple to add a sepetate Port for a competitors Feature.

[xodima]

You're glossing over a lot of very crucial information in favor of admonishing the DOJ.
- Apple doesn't need to wall off its ecosystem to other companies in order to benefit from its tightly integrated ecosystem. That's still something MS and Google utterly fail to pull off and would make competing apps better on IOS than Android/windows.

- For whatever reason, after talking about the inexcusable act of not allowing other companies to use tap-to-pay, you move on to keys needing to be added to apple wallet and gloss the whole thing over as "simplifying the experience" Allowing other wallets to exist on the phone would not impair the simplicity of having your car keys on Apple Wallet. Two exclusive concepts that you rolled into one.