Summary: Legal challenges affect Apple's products

● Apple's app store policies: What will they provoke?

So that’s a couple of years away. If, during that time, Android market remains open and these applications are allowed to buy direct from Amazon, Sony and Barnes and Noble and other eReader stores, and it comes to take considerable market share (more than half), then perhaps Apple won’t find itself on the end of an anti-trust mishap, but it will still have lost the App Store war. But right now, having seen this market develop for three years, it could be said to be sufficiently stable to bring a suit against Apple right now. That could be done as a commercial anti-trust suit, a public one from the US Justice Department or the European Commission or even a user class action might be brought.

● Class-action lawsuit hits AT&T over iPhone data

Moreover, the lawsuit claims that the mobile carrier regularly "bills for phantom data traffic when there is no actual data use initiated by the customer." As an example, the independent consultants allegedly bought a new iPhone and disabled every possible source of data connectivity they could find. Within 10 days, their account said the phone had used 2,292 KB of data.

"This is like the rigged gas pump charging you when you never even pulled your car into the station," condemns the complaint.