Tech giant Apple is asking a federal judge to let it intervene as a defendant in Google’s antitrust case as the court crafts remedies for what the judge said was anticompetitive conduct in the search engine market.
In a Dec. 23 filing, Apple said the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) proposed final judgment, where it laid out potential remedies, threatened a “sea change in Apple’s relationships with Google and threaten[ed] to undermine Apple’s ability to serve its users.”
The company told District of Columbia Judge Amit Mehta that its intervention was necessary because Google couldn’t adequately represent its interests and because its intervention would help inform the court on remedies that “may shape the development of search technology for decades to come.”…