This past Wednesday, a letter was sent to the U.S. Department of Justice calling for “antitrust enforcement against Big Tech companies.” It also urged “the Department to file an antitrust lawsuit against Apple with haste” in order to fight an abuse of power: “Apple is once again in the news for abusing its power to stifle competition and protect its famed ‘walled garden.’”
The charge was that Apple had blocked the iMessage app for Android, Beeper Mini, which “deployed technology to bridge the ‘blue bubble/green bubble’ messaging gap for non-iPhone users.” It’s a story we’ve been following for some time.
