Former App Store boss: Apple thwarts competitors with rules

Phillip Shoemaker, who headed the app review process in the iOS App Store, says Apple is thwarting competitors with its rules for apps. Apple also favors its own services at the expense of competitors. Delegates said that Apple has absolute control over customers’ devices. “The decisions Apple makes regarding third-party apps must be impeccable and they are not,” Shoemaker said on page 371 of the committee’s advisory report. of the rules that those rules are ‘debatable and arbitrary’ in some areas. For example, Apple’s own game service Arcade would clearly violate the rules, but it still appeared in the App Store. Other services with a catalog of games, such as Google Stadia and Microsoft xCloud, are not allowed in the App Store. Apple has “ struggled with using the App Store as a weapon against competitors, ” Shoemaker said, citing Shoemaker’s testimony in response to the report. In that response, the company claims not to have a dominant position in any market in which it operates. In terms of content, the statement does not address the statements of his own former top executive. The testimony comes from the report that came out on Wednesday. The four major tech companies have become the kind of monopolies from the days of the oil barons and rail tycoons, the report of the competition committee says. The tech companies have abused their position to impose prices and set the rules in the e-commerce, search, advertising, social networking and publishing markets.