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The Justice Department joined by 16 other state

and district attorneys general filed a civil antitrust lawsuit against Apple from monopolization

or attempted monopolization of smartphone markets.

So says a press release from the Department of Justice.

The release says the complaint alleges that Apple illegally maintained

the monopoly over smartphones by selectively imposing contractual restrictions on and withholding critical access points from developers.

Now this seems to require a bit of stripping down.

When the DOJ says monopoly over smartphones, it only means some

smartphones. The way the DOJ lays it out, there are performance

smartphones and entry- or non performance smartphones.

The Justice Department says competition from non performance smartphones is not sufficient today to prevent Apple

from exercising monopoly in the performance. is not

exercising monopoly in the performance smartphone market

Which some might see as an arbitrary distinction

It's a distinction made in the suit, though not in the press release.

In the press release, the DOJ says,

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