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Apple is fighting with governments across the world. Could it change the iPhone for ever?

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According to the US government, Apple is something like a disease: spreading ever further and destroying any competition that gets in its way. The problem has infected much of the world – and has even damaged Apple’s own core, making the iPhone worse.

The tech giant’s anticompetitive conduct “reverberates through the industries ... including financial services, fitness, gaming, social media, news media, entertainment, and more”, a new lawsuit reads.

“Unless Apple’s anticompetitive and exclusionary conduct is stopped, it will likely extend and entrench its iPhone monopoly to other markets and parts of the economy.”

That was one accusation among many last week when it officially sued Apple, alleging that the

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