Apple could be the winner after Alphabet subsidiary Google lost its fight with the U.S. antitrust enforcers earlier this week, with a ruling that supports the Cupertino Colossus’ defense in its own antitrust court battle with U.S. prosecutors, legal experts told Reuters.
A federal judge mostly sided with state and federal antitrust enforcers in the blockbuster case on Monday that ruled Google’s search business was an illegal monopoly, but threw out a claim by several U.S. states that one of Google’s ad tools was designed to give the company an advantage over Microsoft’s Bing.
That piece could help Apple’s defense in its own anti-monopoly case, experts said.
The ruling underscored Supreme Court precedent that companies almost never have a “duty to deal” with their rivals, said Herbert Hovenkamp, who teaches antitrust at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School…
To be sure, Apple could ultimately lose billions of dollars because of the Google case if the judge bans the search juggernaut from paying the iPhone maker and others to be the default search engine on their devices.
But the Google ruling could give Apple a boost in its case where the Justice Department says it hampered the development of third-party apps and devices.
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