Monopolies aren't illegal either.

Not exactly. The 9th circuit gave apple permission to charge something for the privilege of using the app store. Just how much they can charge is another matter. They did not, however, permit apple to force apps to use tracking links, or transaction auditing, or anything to that effect, which the lower court took away from apple.

So that's the rub -- how does apple determine how much money changed hands? This could be the first move towards a malicious compliance scheme. Which is pretty bold if so, because they're already on thin ice with the courts, but at the same time, that reality doesn't seem to have sunk in. Their ability to bill anything at all was taken away by the lower court specifically because apple has shown that they will abuse every last inch that they are given. The 9th circuit gave them half of an inch here, and if they try to stretch it to a mile, that probably won't end well. They may try regardless, because they're apple.

Nothing the Roomba did was non-obvious. They just demonstrated there was a lucrative market for it. China didn't need to copy anything just make their own version that eventually became a superior product.

iRobot has been circling the drain for years, they why they were desperate to sell to Amazon.

Honestly I wouldn't want the Trump administration to have a say so in what companies are allowed to acquire or get acquired. There is way too much politics involved and having Trump picking winners and losers (which let's be honest, is probably about who sucked up to him that week) is a very very bad idea. I get in 2022 this was done in the Biden administration, but really no administration should have a say so. The right answer is to have the markets sort it out by themselves and consumers should leveredge boycott more powerfully, frequently, and potently to disrupt business that abuse. I dont trust government to know what's best for me. I know what's best for me, and I trust my fellow Americans to make decisions for what's best for them without Trump's administration trying to guise itself as a guardian angel on my shoulder controlling what I have access to and not.

It was meddling by both D and R in our economy, both were scared of invisible boogiemen of "something bad might happen".

Fear is a great motivator. Courage is standing in the face of danger understanding the risks might be worse doing nothing than doing something. This is a calculated risk and ought to be rewarded in the marketplace if it is correct.

Conglomerates are neither good nor bad in and of themselves. The good is they offer efficiencies in the marketplace. The bad is they take advantage of those efficiencies and often get "too big to fail" (a lie).

People guessing who have no stake in the market are making bad choices, because of other reasons. Both D and R do this. I call it the "There ought to be a law" reactions. Nobody stops long enough to say "no there shouldn't be".

Most iFans do.

A bit telling is that they seem to give themselves discretion of the fee amount, which implies that they believe they have some sort of proper accounting for how many external purchases made and what their amounts were.

How would they even do that in the US? The injunction explicitly denies apple the means of tracking this. Might be the same in other jurisdictions as well.

It's an arbitrary bit warmer than it was during an arbitrarily selected timeframe. Am I supposed to panic? Did someone think they needed to make me panic in order to want less pollution?

Why do you think they changed it in the first place?

Not only do they do that, they also murder religious and ethnic minorities to steal their organs. They enslave children too.

Have fun defending that!

Who? Someone concerned about what their children are being told. That is, someone very keen on avoiding indoctrination.

But you just took an extreme position. If you think you're aiming at the center, your sights are skewed WAY to the right.

Play fighting is normal and healthy for boys. I think that failing to recognize that basic fact leads to a lot of behavioral problems as schools try to suppress normal and necessary parts of development.

Why is that in your head?

The people you think you're criticizing don't think that way. That's in your head, not theirs.

You might want to reflect on that.