Perhaps 2024 will not be as easy as Apple had hoped, and the focus on Vision Pro will have to partly give way to legal problems.
Apple hopes the software changes will be enough
Previously, the Watch Ultra 2 and Series 9 were banned from the Apple online store and physical stores in the US after a complaint from Masimo (Apple is working with a crisis plan that includes, among other things, software changes) was accepted by the International Trade Center, Now the US Department of Justice is investigating whether they have a case regarding the company's ban on Beeper.
Beeper is a service that made Apple iMessage on Android possible. Apple abandoned the app, and Beeper then responded by recommending several “hacks” to make it happen, including using a jailbroken iPhone.
Investigate Apple
Now the New York Times reports that the Department of Justice is investigating whether Apple is violating antitrust laws in the United States, after American politicians asked the relevant authorities to investigate the matter.
According to the newspaper, the Ministry of Justice is “interested in the case” and has asked its lawyers to investigate whether Apple is violating the law. Beeper co-founder Eric Migicowski did not want to comment on the matter. The New York Times reports that the Justice Department is anyway halfway through the case as it investigates the company for violations of monopoly legislation. And maybe this will give them more going forward.
Now, Mark Lemley, a law professor at Stanford University, warns that this may be just one of the first of many expensive cases. This is supported by expert Richard Waters, who says that the health sector will increasingly collide with the technology sector in expensive cases whose results no one knows.
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