Fire of lawsuits, Apple loses $ 115 billion in its market value

The attention of the regulatory authorities is on the Bank of the Atlantic Ocean against the company “Apple”, which raises investors’ concerns about fines and threatens their dominance on the market. In the United States, the Ministry of Justice and 16 public prosecutors filed a lawsuit against the iPhone manufacturer for violating the laws against monopoly. In Europe, the company is said to be investigating whether it is committed to the digital market law of the region. The company’s share price fell more than 4% on Thursday to lose Apple about $ 115 billion from its market value, which has brought the share losses to more than 11% since the beginning of the year until now. And after the day that the world’s most valuable company was more than $ 3 billion, the company’s part of the Nasdac 100 and “S&P 500” indices left the world’s ‘s -& P 500’ indicators in 2024. This is not the first time that Apple has undergone organizational investigation. The company and its peers have faced accusations for years to enrich themselves by suppressing competitors. But with the growing popularity of Apple products and the consolidation of themselves as part of the daily life of the consumer around the world, the authorities have also become more aggressive and cautious about their power. Claims from America to Europe, the US lawsuit, Thursday before the Federal Court in New Jersey, Apple accuses it to prevent competitors from reaching the functions of devices and programs on its famous devices. What the potential investigations in Europe – which can also target some of the “Apple” competitors – can focus on the new drawings, conditions and terms of the company for the application store. “There will come a point in which the sprout of issues and investigation that follows is a real obstacle to how these businesses work … even if they win (the case), they have lost wide,” said Bill Kovacic, a professor of anti -monopoly at the Faculty of Legal Law at George Washington University. Apple replied that Apple responded to the US issue and described it as “wrong with respect to facts and right.” She warned that this measure would be “a dangerous precedent, enabling the government to violently interfere with the design of the technology of interest to humanity” and promise “to defend strongly against it.” The company did not respond to the request to comment on possible European investigations. The US lawsuit claims that “Apple” used its authority to distribute applications on “iPhone” to prevent the innovations that consumers would facilitate to replace phones. The company refused to support correspondence applications via basic systems, limited digital portfolios of external parties and its unrelated hours, and according to the Justice Ministry, Cloud Broadcasting Services banned Services via cellphone. “Apple” suppresses competition in five areas and the lawsuit sheds light on five examples of technologies that Apple suppresses the competition, namely: high applications, cloud broadcast applications, correspondence applications, smart watches and digital portfolios. The company recently added support for the cloud -based pin services and said it would add an “RCS” correspondent service on basic systems later this year. The company said in a statement: “In (Apple) we create every day to make the technology people love, and our design products that work together smoothly, protect the privacy and safety of people, and create a magical experience for our users … This lawsuit threatens our identity and the principles that distinguish our products in very competitive markets.” On the other hand, the digital market law – which provides a series of duties and warnings for some of the world’s largest technology platforms – enables the European Commission to impose heavy fines of up to 10% of the total annual worldwide revenue of the company, and up to 20% for businesses that regularly violate the rules. Following the start of the official investigations with “Apple” – as well as the “Google” business, “alphabet” – the organizers intend to make their final decisions within 12 months. Apple, which has undergone a $ 1.8 billion (two billion dollars) fine (two billion) of the European Union due to the prevention of music broadcast applications to inform users.