Is Security Apple’s Excuse To Limit Competition?

On the inability to install apps from third-party stores on devices with iOS and iPadOS, Apple has always replied that it is a precise choice to limit, among other things, problems relating to security and privacy.

Margrethe Vestager, European Commissioner for Competition, has declared to Reuters that Apple should not make excuses related to privacy for limiting competition.

As part of the VivaTech conference, Apple CEO Tim Cook opposed the idea of the European Commission’s Digital Market Act (DMA), rules that would oblige Apple to authorize the installation of apps from the internet on iOS / iPad OS. from alternative stores. 

Cook had explained that the so-called “sideloading”, would damage the respect of privacy and security “, making in vain various technologies related to privacy that Apple devices take into account.

Margrethe Vestager, commissioner for competition, does not think so, according to which privacy and security are important for everyone but also that Apple must not use these excuses to prevent competition from the App Store. “I believe consumers are unwilling to give up privacy or security by using another store or installing apps outside the App Store.”

In essence, the commissioner is convinced that consumers will be able to make their choices, choose the best in terms of security and privacy of their data, whether it is the App Store or another store, and that the ” exploitation ”on the security issue by Apple is detrimental to healthy competition on Apple’s platforms.

Vestager had reported on other occasions that the draft to be debated by the EU Parliament focused on the market effects of the market dominance of Big Tech on the smallest, criteria that, according to the Commissioner, should help create a more wide compared to IT big names such as Google, Amazon, Facebook, Apple, and Microsoft.

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