PrivateC focus software supplier Proton, Proton Mail manufacturers, Proton Calendar, Proton Drive, and other programs, Sucked Applepleading anti -competitive practices in Apple’s App Store. In the new complaint, Proton says that the iPhone manufacturer holds a monopoly in the smartphones distribution markets, an app payment. It also compares Apple’s fees to rates on online business, calling them “artificial and arbitrary.”
The outfit is looking for changes to the App Store and monetary damage, which Proton says will be donated to organizations fighting for democracy and human rights.
The court PapersArchived in the Northern District of California, is part of a larger class activity against Apple. Proton says it joins other developers, including A group of Korean developerswho also process the technological giant.
The outfit is among the latest to challenge Apple’s choke on the mobile app market.
It follows another annual battle between Epic Games and Apple, which Apple mostly won as it was declared not to be monopolysetting a precedent for the new complaint to argue. However the judge in that case too ruled that Apple must let us developers bind to their websites, where they offer alternative payment mechanisms, without loading a commission on those sales. (Apple is still fighting this issue.)
Proton’s case takes a different corner. It cites the epoch case, saying that the evidence has proven that Apple makes such a great benefit in App Store fees that it is questioning whether the fees are really needed to support the apparent maintenance of the App Store, as Apple claims.
Proton, similarly, addresses Apple’s policies around payments. It points out how Apple has banned developers from talking directly to their customers in the app, where they could tell them about discounts on the web. In addition, programs that do not support Apple’s payment system are at risk of being removed from the App Store, the costume states.
The arguments around payments delve into other shades of how the system works, how it is harder to manage payments and subscriptions through devices due to Apple’s rules. For example, the company Explained in a blog -fixture That customers who have updated their accounts on the web cannot decrease from their iOS device, which is a poor customer experience.
Proton also argues that its calendar app cannot be configured as the default, Although iOS allows users to exchange The defaults for other programs such as browsers, email, phone calls, messages and more. And it is noted that its proton drive is limited by Fon processing, while iCloud does not.
Notably, Proton’s case focuses on how the single Apple distribution point with the App Store makes it a tool used by dictatorships around the world to silence free speech. On this front, it is noted that all the programs that Apple must remove to comply with laws in markets such as Russia and China. This decision falls to iOS developers, Proton says, as when its VPN -App was threatened with removal because it claimed to “unlock censorship websites.”
“Apple’s monopoly control over the distribution of programs in iOS devices presents myriad problems for consumers, businesses and society as a whole,” Proton’s poster reads. “Anti-monopoly laws exist because the power donated by monopoly status inevitably leads to abuse. In the case of oligarchic technological giants, these abuses have broad implications for society, and it is essential to the future of the Internet they are now dealing with.”
We reached Apple to comment and didn’t immediately hear back.
