Double standards, when it comes to being so straightforward, why doesn't the US government share chip technology with China?

The US Department of Justice said in a press release: “Apple's widespread exclusivity makes it harder for Americans to replace smartphones, undermines innovation in apps, products, and services, and brings extraordinary costs to developers, businesses, and consumers.”

The US Department of Justice and attorneys general believe that Apple's anti-competitive behavior has gone beyond the hardware category of iPhones and Apple Watch to the fields of advertising, browsers, FaceTime, and news products, including blocking innovative superapps, suppressing mobile cloud streaming services, excluding cross-platform messaging apps, reducing the functionality of non-Apple smartwatches, and restricting third-party digital wallets. Furthermore, US Department of Justice officials also stated that it is not ruled out that measures to split the company will be used to resolve this antitrust lawsuit.

Some legal experts said that the US government must prove that Apple's business practices are “exclusive” and hurt consumers by reducing the quality of competitors' products. Douglas Ross, an antitrust scholar at the University of Washington Law School, said that when a company with monopoly power takes steps to reduce short-term profits in order to crowd out competitors in the long term, this becomes a problem. He added: “The basic assumption of the US Department of Justice seems to be that Apple must cooperate with competitors and allow them to compete with them.”