It seems that Apple has finally started to push its luck with its closed systems and the cheeky feature witholding from their customers with the company now looking to be taken to court by several organisations, two of which are from the US government itself.

The two groups in questions are the U.S. Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission, who are currently in neogiations of their own, about who gets the first crack at the fruityfirm. Both of them want to launch investigations into Apple, with the eventual outcome expected to be anti-trust lawsuits.

The proposed investigations come on the back of Apple's latest industry shunning gaffe where they stated they would not support the widely used Adobe flash platform on their phones, with Steve Jobs initially stating that the web media standard caused crashes in Apple devices, and that making applications in it caused poor quality apps. Unfortunately for Jobs, this was perhaps going one step too far as it's painfully obvious to everyone that allowing flash on the iPhone would simply undermine the app store, which thrives on offering people applications on your mobile that can be found for free online, if your device supports flash.

Their latest policy rehashing also locks out another industry standard, Sun's Java, which is used in a similar fashion to flash to create clever applications and website backends, making the iPhone a device that in some senses is crippled compared to its competitors, despite what the Jobs fanboys would have you believe.

In an interesting turn of events, the usually lauding fans of Apple and its hardware in the mainstream media have begun turning against the organisation as well. The New York Post reported on the anti-trust scandal stating that, "Regulators are days away from making a decision about which agency will launch the inquiry. It will focus on whether the policy, which took effect last month, kills competition by forcing programmers to choose between developing apps that can run only on Apple gizmos or come up with apps that are platform neutral, and can be used on a variety of operating systems, such as those from rivals Google, Microsoft and Research In Motion."