Russian competitors watchdog FAS on Monday stated that Apple has abused its dominant place within the cellular apps market by its App Store for iOS units and can challenge an order demanding that the corporate resolve rules breaches.
An Apple spokesman stated the corporate plans to attraction towards the FAS ruling.
The Russian ruling comes towards the backdrop of European Commission investigations into Apple and the App Store’s guidelines, together with necessities that app builders use its personal in-app buy system.
The FAS cited the necessity to obtain apps for the Apple’s iOS working system through its App Store. It additionally stated that Apple has unlawfully reserved rights to dam any third-parties’ apps from the App Store.
The investigation by the FAS adopted a criticism from cybersecurity firm Kaspersky Lab, which had stated {that a} new model its Safe Kids software had been declined by Apple’s working system.
It stated that Apple had launched model 12 of its personal parental management app, Screen Time, which had related features to the Kaspersky programme. Parental management apps enable mother and father to manage their youngsters’s telephone and pill utilization.
Apple has stated it eliminated a number of parental management apps from its App Store as a result of they “put users’ privacy and security at risk”.
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