DOJ’s Apple Antitrust Lawsuit ‘Misguided,’ Says Legal Expert

Published on March 28, 2024

The Department of Justice’s new antitrust lawsuit, United States v. Apple, which Attorney General Merrick Garland announced at a press conference last week, is an aggressive move that may well result in the breakup of the tech firm that an ambitious youngster named Steve Jobs founded in April 1976. But the lawsuit relies on a novel interpretation of antitrust law that shunts aside the longstanding distinction between monopolization and product differentiation. The former crosses legal lines, while the latter is a common and indeed necessary strategy for companies that hope to innovate, compete, and stay solvent in the ever-evolving tech space or indeed in any competitive industry, an antitrust expert has told The Epoch Times....

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