The Consumers and Markets Authority of the Netherlands has announced that it has launched an investigation to determine whether Apple is giving preferential treatment to its applications in the App Store. This investigation is motivated by the complaint of a large number of developers, who they feel at a disadvantage when it comes to competing in the App Store.
But it seems that the Dutch competition court will not only investigate Apple, but will do the same with the Google application store. In order to conduct the investigation, he has requested that the affected developers present their cases independently.
According to this medium, the beginning of the investigations does not mean that both platforms have committed any irregularity, but rather that it is a matter of confirming that all the developers they have an equal chance of success in both app stores.
The problem with this complaint is that again it comes to light that at least on iOS, the application store is the only available way to install applications so you have to go through the Apple ring yes or yes, with what it It means in the income of the creator of the application.
Apple, like Google or Microsoft, offer native applications for calendar, mail and others, so it does not make any sense that a competition court wants to enter into this type of investigation, since what they do is offer a free app for your customers, versions that in most cases are far from those that we can find both in the App Store and in the Play Store.
Another of the allegations of this community is that cannot use all the functionalities of an iPhone, since Apple keeps to itself some functions, especially those related to security. This happens mainly when it refers to security issues such as access to the NFC chip, a chip that will finally open to be used for Brexit.
