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- The US Department of Justice filed an antitrust lawsuit against Apple on Thursday.
- The suit accuses Apple of illegally abusing its monopoly power in the smartphone industry and stifling competition.
- It's the latest move by US and EU regulators to stop what they deem anti-competitive tactics.
Apple just got hit with a US antitrust lawsuit that accuses the iPhone maker of illegally maintaining a smartphone monopoly not by improving its own products — but by making rivals' offerings worse.