United States v. Apple Inc. Apple must pay $450 million. In this case, the court applied the per se doctrine to vertical pricing conduct which had not been the doctrine since Leegin Creative Leather Products, Inc. v. PSKS, Inc.. Leegin suggested that vertical conduct be judged independently under the rule of reason even in the presence of both vertical and horizontal parties. This may lead to more stringent antitrust treatment to actors in vertical relationships. United States v. Apple Inc. United States of America v. Apple Inc., et al., 12 Civ. 2862 (DLC), was a US antitrust case in which the Court held that Apple
Criticism of Apple Inc. Apple said in December 2017 that the reason their older phones run slower (one of the criticised changes) is because the battery in their phones wear out over time and that their older phones may shut down unexpectedly. In 2018, several officials reported that American spy agencies have learned from human sources inside foreign governments that Chinese and Russian spies were eavesdropping on President Donald Trump's personal iPhone calls and intercepting communications between foreign officials.. Criticism of Apple Inc. Apple Inc. is a multinational American technology company which sells consumer electronics that have been claimed by critics to combine stolen