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Final month, the U.S. Justice Division and greater than a dozen state attorneys basic sued Apple, claiming that the tech large has an unlawful monopoly over the smartphone market and warning that Apple’s monopoly on smartphones might lengthen to different areas of the financial system, together with leisure.
Tonight on The Day by day Present, Jon Stewart provided a view into his personal tussle with Apple associated to his Apple TV+ comedy present The Drawback With Jon Stewart.
“I wished to have you ever on a podcast and Apple requested us to not do it,” the Day by day Present host mentioned to his visitor, Federal Commerce Fee Chair Lina Khan, referencing the podcast that was an extension of the Apple present, which the tech large canceled in October.
“They actually mentioned, ‘Please don’t speak to her,’” Stewart informed Khan.
The FTC chair has been outspoken about her considerations over what she sees are monopolistic practices by tech giants like Apple which, she informed Stewart tonight, have stifled shopper alternative.
Stewart provided one other instance.
“They wouldn’t allow us to do even that dumb factor we simply did within the first act on AI,” Stewart mentioned, referring to a segment earlier in tonight’s present on what he termed “the false promise of A.I.”
“Like, what’s that sensitivity? Why are they so afraid to even have these conversations out within the public sphere?” he requested.
“I feel it simply reveals the hazard of what occurs once you focus a lot energy and a lot choice making in a small variety of firms,” answered Khan.
