Japan’s Fair Trade Commission is investigating Apple Inc over its pressure on Japanese parts makers and whether it abused its power in violation of antimonopoly rules, the Mainichi newspaper reported on Tuesday.
The investigation is the latest by the country’s regulators against the tech giant after they found last year that the company may have breached antitrust rules on the way it sold its iPhones in Japan.
Apple illegally pressuring smaller companies into doing its bidding? Surely such is preposterous.
So American companies are allowed to force technology transfers in order to do business, but non-American companies are not allowed to.
I don’t understand the link between your quote and your conclusion. This is about size (big vs small), not origin (American vs non-American)
It isn’t even only smaller companies, although almost every company is small compared to Apple.
Apple even pressures huge companies like Intel. Without that pressure Intel wouldn’t have pursued smartphone modems for the iPhone 7 and later