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Why Apple needs to face greater antitrust scrutiny | The DeanBeat

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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  • 6 min

After watching Apple’s defiance of European antitrust regulators this week, I’ve come to the conclusion that the company needs to face greater antitrust scrutiny.

I believe the tech industry will thrive better under open standards and fair competition. The industry will innovate better when it can invest in new technologies, bringing about new versions of the internet, better AI tools, transparent tech like the blockchain and consumer gathering places like the metaverse.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.