Despite the fact that the fans still love Apple and in every possible way to protect it from the appeals from the outside, recently certain claims are increasingly presented to it. And they are based, as a rule, from state bodies concerned about the monopoly capture of the market. They are confused that there are several niches, which Apple does not allow anyone to do anyone, preferring to act there alone. In Cupertino, this is explained by car safety, but the authorities are slow, but correctly planning slightly to press Apple to make the market more free and competitive. For example, as in the case of the App Store.
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In the North Dakota Parliament, seriously think about to legally prohibit Apple require developers to post their applications exclusively in the App Store. In this way, it is planned to allow IOS alternative sources of software, which are now actually outside the law, and give users the ability to choose where to download applications. Now they have no choice.
Applicalogs of App Store
Despite the fact that in principle such platforms exist, in Cupertino in every way prevent their work, provoking their creators to go underground and act not completely honestly. As a rule, they request a corporate certificate from Apple. It is needed to work applications that are not distributed through the App Store. However, Apple tracks the inappropriate use of certificates and blocks them.
The bill, which issued a Senator Kyle Davison to "equalize the rules of the game" for developers and protect users from "destructive monopoly charges levied by large technological companies." That is, according to the provisions of the bill, it will ban Apple to demand from developers to receive payments through the built-in tool for the App Store payment using its own.
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Despite the fact that conversations about obliges Apple to admit alternative application stores on iOS has long been, and the company even attracted to the investigation into the monopoly case, no one seems to have tried to consolidate such provisions at the legislative level. Therefore, there is nothing surprising in the fact that in Cupertino seriously they smashed and spoke with a comment on this topic, in order to convey their position.
Why Apple Monopoly
In fact, we are really dealing with the monopoly that Apple organized in the field of mobile applications for iOS. Of course, iOS belongs to Apple and according to the logic of things, it may not allow third-party developers to it. However, you need to understand several aspects:
- First, iOS has long ceased to be a private platform. Application developers develop and popularize it on a par with the apple itself.
- Secondly, a few years ago Microsoft ordered access to Windows to developers of third-party browsers - this was the beginning of the end of IE.
- Thirdly, Google recently fined for selling licensed on Android only with his services, not allowing them to abandon them.
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So, to say frankly, in a short time we can wait for a large-scale shift of tectonic plates. After all, the problem of monopoly is beginning to be interested in more and more people and state bodies. Obviously, the appearance of alternative application stores will change the IOS most seriously. But Apple is not afraid to change the mobile application industry, prohibiting developers to track users, although they have been engaged in this years and built a whole business model on it. Just today, Apple has become the one who is invited to abandon vicious practice.