The Justice Division filed an antitrust lawsuit in opposition to Apple, alleging that the corporate has established a monopoly with the iPhone that has harmed shoppers, builders and rivals.

“Every step in Apple’s course of conduct constructed and strengthened the moat round its smartphone monopoly,” the federal government stated within the lawsuit filed Thursday.

The DOJ alleged that to maintain shoppers shopping for iPhones, Apple moved to dam cross-platform messaging apps, restricted third-party pockets and smartwatch compatibility and disrupted non-App Retailer applications and cloud-streaming providers.

Apple stated in a press release that it could struggle the go well with.

“At Apple, we innovate every single day to make expertise folks love — designing merchandise that work seamlessly collectively, defend folks’s privateness and safety, and create a magical expertise for our customers. This lawsuit threatens who we’re and the rules that set Apple merchandise aside in fiercely aggressive markets,” the corporate stated in a press release. “If profitable, it could hinder our capacity to create the type of expertise folks anticipate from Apple — the place {hardware}, software program, and providers intersect. It will additionally set a harmful precedent, empowering authorities to take a heavy hand in designing folks’s expertise.”