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by smoldesu 938 days ago
> but seriously; when does this sort of thing fall within the Anti Trust law scopes?

Antitrust law ends up being pretty subjective, and more relies on demonstrated market harm and remediation than specific abuses. This sort of behavior is frustrating, but probably doesn't fall under the purview of antitrust concern. Maybe give Apple a friendly email suggesting that you'll reach out to the Better Business Bureau next, and see how fast the customer service rep calls you back. Just a thought.

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I've found the BBB to be a joke, TBH.
Without leverage, your sticks and stones mean pretty much nothing to Apple. I left the Apple ecosystem because complaining about poor cross-platform support and dwindling API coverage fell on deaf ears. Nobody here can wave a magic wand and fix the problem, ultimately we're just yelling at companies that value us for dogfooding their shit UX.

I wish you luck, but I've seldom seen the "Google/Microsoft/Facebook/Apple wronged me!" threads get a happy ending on HN.