Apple's Antitrust Case

Amazon.com was founded as an online bookstore in July, 1995 and went public in May 1997. In June, 1998 Amazon.com launched its music store. Since then Amazon.com has become the most prominent Internet retailer. Over time Amazon.com has added several products including electronics, health and beauty products, house wares, kitchenware’s, music, tools, toys, videos, and several services such as auctions, 1-Click ordering, and zShops. Amazon.com has expanded nationally and internationally and now operates several customer service and distribution centers in the United States and international web sites that

As you are aware, on December 2, 2015 a terrorist attack took place at the Inland Regional Center in San Bernardino, California in which 14 civilians were killed and 22 others were seriously injured. On February 9, 2016 the FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation) announced that it was unable to unlock one of the mobile phones they recovered, an Apple I-phone issued by the county of San Bernardino to the shooter Syed Rizwan Farook due to its advanced security features. (Volz, Dustin; Hosenball, Mark (February 9, 2016). "FBI director says investigators unable to unlock San Bernardino shooter 's phone content". Reuters). The FBI requested from Apple Inc., a multinational technology giant, that they create a new version of the phone’s operating system that could be installed and run in the phone’s random access memory to disable certain security features. This would effectively create a back door into the I-phone. Apple turned down the FBI’s request due to a security concern. Thus began a fight between the United States Government and Apple Inc. over breaking encryption and government intrusion. The clash reflects wider debates in the United States and elsewhere over security measures used by companies to protect users of devices such as smartphones — and how much leverage authorities should have to gain

The March 22 hearing on the motions filed in the case of U.S. v. Apple should have concluded in the United States' favor. The United States properly filed a motion to compel Apple to assist the United States government in unlocking an iPhone that was reasonably believed to contain information regarding a terrorist attack that killed 14 people and wounded 21 others. The iPhone belonged to the County of San Bernardino--who consented to having the iPhone searched--and was used by the County's former employee, Syed Farook--who turned out to be the terrorist behind the aforementioned terrorist attack. In his employment contract with the County, Farook also consented to the iPhone being searched. Since this is true, and because terrorism is a serious

Apple is currently going through the court system a lot these days; being one of the biggest tech cases of 2016. The FBI and the U.S. government want to take over the control of the iPhone. They want Apple to override the encryption feature to be allowed to crack the password. Currently, the new features only allow the owner to crack the password. Apple is arguing that the request is a violation of Apple’s First Amendment rights.

Have you ever played monopoly? Not just the game Monopoly but the exclusive possession or control of something. Remind you of any company? Amazon. Amazon mostly cares about being on the top along with the other Tech Giants. Also, Amazon doesn’t care much about their workers and they’re allowing access for strangers to receive others information. Amazon is becoming too powerful!

They helped bring change food-inspections laws were passed antitrust laws were enforced reforming mayors were elected to office. They wrote about city bosses and told how dishonest they were and they cheated citizens of their rights and money. They wrote about the injustice, unfairness, and

Neil Irwin of The New York Times writes of Amazon: “The online retailer is on a collision course with Walmart to try to be the predominant seller of pretty much everything you buy. Each one is trying to become more like the other — Walmart by investing heavily in technology, Amazon by opening physical bookstores and now buying physical supermarkets.” Something similar, says Irwin, is happening in “nearly every major industry,” benefiting “the biggest and best-run organizations, to the detriment of upstarts and second-fiddle players.”

Resolved, Apple should unlock the iPhone for the FBI. The recent case, Apple Vs. United States, has stirred commotion within the United States and its citizens. After the San Bernardino shootings that killed fourteen people and seriously injured twenty-two, one of the shooter’s iPhone was confiscated by the police. This led to a debate on whether or not the phone should be unlocked. Apple CEO Tim Cook contends that by unlocking the phone, one’s privacy will be violated. On the other hand, the FBI wants Apple to unlock the phone as it might provide essential information. Apple should unlock the iPhone for the FBI as it proves to be the right decision on an economic, realistic, philosophical, and historical basis.

The FBI has dropped a lawsuit against Apple, maybe this is the end for them.Last December, 14 people were killed by Syed Farook and his wife. The FBI says that they were able to do this, because of Apple's weak security in iphones. Therefore Apple’s security is easy to bypass by many people; and needs a stronger system. Apple’s security may be weak because, there is stronger technology in the world, people are easy to predict.Admittedly, the FBI turned to Apple for a reason on what had happened.The problem may have been solved for now, but it will replay in the near future (newsela).The FBI should have been able to stop the shooting in San Bernardino, if they were not concerned with Apple.But if Apple accepted the offer, would they have to

Back in 2010, the original accusation stated. It was the time when iPad was launching, Apple managed to increase the price of some e-books by as much as 50% (from $9.99 to $14.99) by colluding with five book publishers. That was an attempt to impede Amazon’s leading position as a cheap e-book retailer.

Apple just won a major victory in the $1 billion lawsuit filed by rivals that alleged the company violated antitrust laws by restricting on its iTunes app files that were purchased from competing music services.

It is necessary when looking at this predicament to understand what causes the underlying structure of the conflict. The fact is that the government feels that Apple and the five publishers were trying to create a structure that would cause not only a rise in pricing but a monopoly within the business of selling e-books to readers. Coltri tells us in Alternative Dispute Resolution a Conflict Diagnosis Approach, “We can’t read minds. To respond efficaciously in frequent and often rapid-fire social interaction requires us to understand and predict the thoughts, feelings, attitudes, and behaviors of others,” (Coltri, 2010). This tells us that when the government was in talks with Apple and the publishers, and after the lawsuit was brought against the companies the lawyers knew that some would fall. It proved to be true, three of the publishers settled out of court and gave up on the idea of driving e-book prices higher and causing a strain on the public.

The company started off as “Apple Computer,” best known for its Macintosh personal computers (PCs) in the 1980’s and 1990’s. Despite a strong brand, rapid growth, and high profits in the late 1980s, Apple almost went bankrupt in 1996 (Kim & Yoffie, 2010, p.1). This can be explained that Apple has become larger and more significant than other competitors put together in 1980. Because Apple failed to innovate in 1996, the company almost went bankruptcy but eventually Steve Jobs took Apple from bad situation to the company that can make billions of dollars through promoted itself as a hip alternative to other computer brands. Apple highlighted its computers as the world’s “greenest lineup of notebooks” that were energy efficient and used recyclable materials. The goal was to differentiate the Macintosh amid intense competition in the PC industry (Kim & Yoffie, p.4).

Apple Inc. has launched its iPhone in January 2007 (telegraph) as a new product in the market with latest technology and it was the first multi touch smartphone adding the feature of iPod and received an overwhelmed response by selling 270000 units. It had created a new record for a new company like apple, iPhone had laid a stepping stone for the success of Apple and till this time iPhone is the best seller product of Apple Inc. during first quarter of 2016 apple has sold over 74 million iPhones worldwide. (statista, 2016).

This paper presents a case study of Apple Inc. Apple Inc. is a technology based corporation with emphasis on computer software and hardware (MAC and Apps), tablets (IPad), smart phones (IPhone), and mp3 plays, (ITouch). Apple Inc. has grown tremendously over the years and ever since 2001 has expanded its brand and retail stores to over 375 stores/outlets globally. The business has seventy two thousand eight hundred employees in thirty eight countries. Apple Inc. has truly become one of the most efficacious corporations within its field behind or competing with Microsoft and Google Inc.