Opinion

The ‘landmark’ Apple lawsuit ignores two realities

There was something curiously slapdash about the Justice Department’s March 21 complaint against Apple, as if the country’s top antitrust cops aren’t sure of themselves — despite having spent five years working on their theory of the case.

It makes me wonder whether the lawsuit, touted as “landmark” because the feds and 16 states are going after one of the country’s most admired companies, will amount instead to a costly and protracted ankle-biting exercise.