US Goverment to launch Anti-trust probe against Apple

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Report: U.S. Government to Launch Apple Antitrust Probe Over iPhone Flash Lockout
http://www.dailytech.com/Report+US+Gove ... e18287.htm

Now The New York Post reports that the U.S. Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission are "locked in negotiations" about who will be the first to file antitrust charges against Apple. Both are interested in launching inquiries; inquiries are used to determine if a full investigation is needed. An investigation can lead to big fines as Microsoft and Intel have found out.

Apple's new policies not only lock out Adobe's Flash, but also Sun's Java and Microsoft's Silverlight/Mono. Josh Kosman, author of the piece in The Post wrote, "Regulators, this person said, are days away from making a decision about which agency will launch the inquiry. It will focus on whether the policy, which took effect last month, kills competition by forcing programmers to choose between developing apps that can run only on Apple gizmos or come up with apps that are platform neutral, and can be used on a variety of operating systems, such as those from rivals Google, Microsoft and Research In Motion