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This article has no substance or analysis. It's a vibes-based take from someone who clearly has direct self-interest at stake.

Read this instead: https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/why-the-apple-antitrust-s...

This dichotomy between academics and activists "who always want more antitrust" and people from tech who raise objections but are dismissed is absurd. Read the HN threads on this issue[1].

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39778999

I partook in that discussion on the tech side and the divide was extreme.

I think it boiled down to “can a company have a monopoly over a platform they’ve created if that platform itself isn’t a monopoly”.

I won’t reiterate my argument or my viewpoint on that here since it’s already in that thread, but that was the takeaway I got.

But it's not a divide between academics and activists and people in tech.

It boils down to the DoJ wants to force "Super Apps" like WeChat. That is something I absolutely don't want because then everyone will be forced to use it, like in China. Super Apps are what's intrinsically anticompetitive.

United States vs. Apple