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by blendergeek 1713 days ago
> The litigation / cases / govt intervention has been on behalf of businesses not consumers.

There is actually a class action suit against Apple regarding anti-trust brought by consumers. Unfortunately, while the suit was filed in 2011, it wasn't until 2019 that the Supreme Court ruled that consumers even do business with Apple in the App Store [0]. So, a lawsuit filed in 2011 was allowed to go forward in 2019. I don't know what methods Apple had used to hold up the case since then.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Inc._v._Pepper