US v. Apple: everything you need to know
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Apple benefited from DOJ’s Microsoft case.
Apple was a “significant beneficiary” of the DOJ’s suit against Microsoft more than 20 years ago, said Jonathan Kanter, assistant attorney general for the Antitrust Division. “The remedy paved the way for Apple to launch iTunes, iPod and eventually the iPhone.”
He described the new suit as a way “to protect competition and innovation for the next generation of technology.”
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