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Kaspersky Lab Files Antitrust Complaint Against Apple Over App Store Policy

Kaspersky's complaint is specifically to do with Apple's removal of the Kaspersky Safe Kids app. In a blog post on the Kaspersky website, the firm says it received notice from Apple last year that the app, which had been in the App Store for three years, did not meet App Store guidelines owing to the use of configuration profiles.
Kaspersky was told by Apple that it would need to remove these profiles for the app to pass review and remain in the App Store, but the Russian firm had argued this action essentially crippled the app. "For us, that would mean removing two key features from Kaspersky Safe Kids: app control and Safari browser blocking."
The first allows parents to specify which apps kids can't run based on the App Store's age restrictions, while the second allows the hiding of all browsers on the device so that web pages can only be accessed in the Kaspersky Safe Kids app's built-in secure browser.
Kaspersky argues that the change in Apple's policy regarding parental control apps coincided with the release of iOS 12 and Apple's own Screen Time feature, which lets users monitor the amount of time they spend using certain apps and websites, and set time restrictions. Kaspersky calls it "essentially Apple's own app for parental control," and claims that's why Apple changed its tune on the firm's Safe Kids app and other apps like it.
From our point of view, Apple appears to be using its position as platform owner and supervisor of the sole channel for delivering apps to users of the platform to dictate terms and prevent other developers from operating on equal terms with it. As a result of the new rules, developers of parental control apps may lose some of their users and experience financial impact. Most important, however, it is the users who will suffer as they miss out on some critical security features. The market for parental control apps will head toward a monopoly and, consequently, stagnation.Kaspersky says it wants to continue its "winning relationship with Apple," but on "a more equal footing," and hopes that its application to the Russian Federal Antimonopoly Service will "benefit the market at large" and require Apple to "provide competitive terms to third-party developers."
Kaspersky's dispute has parallels with the antitrust complaint brought against Apple by Spotify last week. The music streaming service filed the complaint with the European Commission, accusing the iPhone maker of enforcing App Store rules that "purposely limit choice and stifle innovation at the expense of the user experience" and "acting as both a player and referee to deliberately disadvantage other app developers."
Apple responded to the complaint two days later, labeling it "misleading rhetoric" and arguing that "Spotify wants all the benefits of a free app without being free." A day later, Spotify fired back, claiming "every monopolist will suggest they have done nothing wrong" and that, consequently, Apple's response was "entirely in line" with its expectations.
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When it comes to sensitive features such as screen time and screen recording which basically entail someone else taking control of your entire device, I would rather that company be Apple (whom I do trust) rather than a third party developer.
I feel that in such cases, Apple is justified in restricting the ability of other companies to perform such actions. If there is a need, Apple will handle it themselves.
Maybe this is Apple acting anticompetitively, but I would personally have it no other way. The safest hands are still Apple’s own.
They just want to ride Spotify's PR wave.
Then perhaps these people should never have bought into the Apple ecosystem in the first place, when they knew very well what they were getting into when they embraced the walled garden philosophy.
To me, it’s not about right or wrong. It just is (the way that Apple does things), and if someone doesn’t like it, well, there’s always android.
It's just unbelievable how many people will just jump to support everything Apple related! I'm not an expert and I don't know the details of this case but I assume neither do you. Keep defending everything Apple does.
As far as the apple ecosystem you do realise there are users who use apple products for more than 10-20 years right? We have every right to complain if there's something we don't like. It's childish to suggest to consumers that either to use android or to shut up.
Isn't the reason that it's now built-in and it's duplicating the OS enough?
Well who tells you one work better than the other?Should we stop allowind developers to say create Affinity Photo , since it duplicates Adobe Photoshop?
I mean since when choice is a bad thing for consumers?
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There are lots of app that replicate the built in app in iOS, but they have more features, so no just because the built in app does something similar, it does not work as a good excuses, as you might be missing out on features Apple pretend you do not need.
Then perhaps these people should never have bought into the Apple ecosystem in the first place, when they knew very well what they were getting into when they embraced the walled garden philosophy.
To me, it’s not about right or wrong. It just is (the way that Apple does things), and if someone doesn’t like it, well, there’s always android.
If I did what you suggest and avoid every company that I have a dissagreement with I would never be doing business with any company and as such your argument of if you don't like it go elsewhere is simply a cheap shot strawman argument.
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It's childish to suggest to consumers that either to use android or to shut up.
Well said. Some Apple fans will defend Apple to the ends of the earth, no matter what Apple does no wrong.So you're not using any Russian software because you don't trust Russian politics?
I assume you could extend this to any former communist country. How about Ukraine? Do you trust them? Because that's where Readdle apps were developed! (excellent apps by the way !)
Well considering the NSA tools were found on Kaspersky's network, ya, im gonna go with F them.
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