, Columnist
The US Shouldn’t Force Apple to Make a Worse iPhone
Leveling the playing field invariably means adding complication, friction and insecurity to a device that became successful because the company was able to engineer away all of those things.
Exhibit A for Apple.
Photographer: Graham Hughes/Bloomberg
The biggest challenge that the Department of Justice has in winning its antitrust case against Apple Inc. is this: The iPhone is really, really awesome.
I’m not trying to be droll. The iPhone’s quality, and the way in which Apple continues to make it so, goes to the heart of the case filed against the company on Thursday morning.