Accepting Epic’s arguments and preventing Apple from continuing to operate its closed mobile ecosystem would eliminate a signature attractive feature of Apple’s products, to the detriment of consumer welfare, competition, and innovation.
Publications
March 30, 2022
While the new Federal IT Dashboard looks nice and delivers partly on the “premier user-centric site” self-designation through a clean and navigable user interface, the website fails to present the underlying data in a way that most users can interpret and ultimately falls short as a tool that different stakeholders can leverage to explore federal IT investments and initiatives.
March 29, 2022
ITIF’s Schumpeter Project on Competition Policy offers six-month resident fellowships for graduate students and invites inquiries from antitrust professionals wishing to become nonresident affiliates of the program.
March 28, 2022
Facebook’s business justification for limiting platform access for rival app developers was self-evident: It did not want to help them replicate its core functions, nor did it want to share its intellectual property—certainly not for free. That is rational competition, not unlawful anticompetitive behavior.
March 28, 2022
The advisory board of ITIF’s Schumpeter Project on Competition Policy is proud to award a prize for the year’s best graduate student paper on antitrust policy. The winner(s) will receive an honorarium of $2,000.
March 28, 2022
Private firms face a number of challenges that limit their willingness and ability to share mobility data. The government’s role should be to coordinate the behavior of individuals, companies, and researchers toward social good.
March 28, 2022
Managers found that company productivity improved under a companywide teleworking policy, with the strongest ratings on productivity improvement made from managers of firms in “hybrid” models, where workers share time between the home and office.
March 28, 2022
The fiscal year 2022 budget is a critical opportunity for Congress to advance U.S. energy innovation. This interactive data visualization illustrates the funding pathways for RD&D at the U.S. Department of Energy.
March 26, 2022
Antitrust is the wrong tool to address content moderation—and weaponizing antitrust because of animus to certain companies is simply wrong.
March 25, 2022
ITIF applauds both the Biden administration and U.S. Congress for articulating and advancing the Creating Helpful Incentives to Produce Semiconductors (“CHIPS”) for America Act, which has been passed out of the Senate and House in largely similar form in their respective U.S. Innovation and Competition Act (USICA) and America COMEPTES Act.