US justice department registered an initial victory Its no -confidence case against Apple Today, a federal judge rejected the Apple’s attempt to dismiss the trial lump sum. The government’s allegations are sufficient to display Apple’s specific intentions to monopoly in smartphones and performance smartphone markets, “has been written by Judge Julian Neel an opinion On Monday.

Apple filed Government’s trial rejected In August 2024, arguing that the Department of Justice failed to show that Apple had monopoly on the smartphone market or worked in an anticomatic way. The lawsuit “outliven” was based on the basis that Apple’s success “comes to block competitive hazards from the intentional decline of the iPhone,” the company wrote.

The progress of the case is still in a hurry, and the judge is not yet ruling any claims of the government. But he is saying that the allegations are “enough” to support the claims that Apple worked in a competitive manner. Apple did not immediately respond to the remarks request.

Victory was not necessary here. When the Federal Trade Commission sued Meta (then Facebook) for anti-competitive practices in social media space, the judge initially Released its claims And forced it to file it again before the case It was allowed to move forward,

The DOJ suit against Apple claims that the company has a monopoly in the smartphone market by limiting the functionality of competitive products from apps to accessories. Jonathan Kunter was the head of the then DOJ Entrust Division, at the time said that Apple used “contradictory rules and restrictions” to increase prices on consumers and developers and “competitive options from rival technologies.”