The US Department of Justice's antitrust complaint against Apple is built on the case against Microsoft in 1999, which cleared the way for Apple's success with the iPod.
Inside the US Department of Justice’s 88-page antitrust complaint against Apple , there’s a cool reminder to the company: you’re here because we paved the way. According to the DOJ , its antitrust case against Microsoft cleared the way for Apple — then teetering on bankruptcy — to launch its breakout success: the iPod. Decades and trillions of dollars later, Apple is in the hot seat.
And because time is a flat circle, it’s facing an antitrust case built directly on that 1999 case against Microsoft. To better understand the DOJ’s case against Apple, it helps to understand United States v. Microsoft. If you were a teen in the ’90s (or maybe not yet born — in which case, good for you), you may have missed this landmark antitrust case, but here’s the short version: Microsoft got nervous about the rise of the web and used its position as a monopoly to squash would-be competitors, most notably, Netscap
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