The Epic Games judgment process against Apple should still yield a lot of "cloth in the sleeve", following the popular saying. In the accusation that the company has formed a monopoly with the changes in values commissioned to the company for each application sold on the Play Store, Apple defended itself by saying that this procedure is extremely important.
Tim Cook, Apple's CEO, openly said that without the company's "rigid review process" of apps, the App Store would be a "toxic mess"This process can be bureaucratic, but according to the Cupertino giant, it's designed to ensure that scams and malicious apps don't find their way into their app store, a prime target for malware and other malicious infestations.
The company believes this is part of the fight against antitrust lawsuits and investigations into its alleged monopoly over distributing apps to its devices that involve tablets and smartphones.
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The procedure that is called by many developers as rigid and restricted, still has flaws that can jeopardize the security and privacy of users. According to a report by The Washington Post, of the 1.000 apps with the highest revenue on the App Store, nearly 2% are fraudulent.
Such applications available on the App Store even offer misleading features to users, such as VPN network applications, or that may falsely "find" some type of malware on the device, offering a paid feature that may "fix" the problem. To boost the use of the tool, some of these apps have fake "customer" comments on their page, which makes the program one of the highlights of the App Store.
The source also completes the article saying that these fraudulent apps may have generated a $48 million loss to consumers, which includes the 30% fee charged by Apple on app purchases and subscriptions, a figure that has been questioned by Epic Games, Spotify and others.
"Essential procedure," says Apple
Despite the great damage, Apple defends itself by saying that over the past year, approximately $1,5 billion worth of potentially fraudulent transactions were stopped by the company, in addition to terminating 244 million user accounts and 470 developer accounts, and rejecting the creation of 424 million new accounts.
The statements of the other companies, however, go against what Apple defends, saying that this procedure is not really essential to protect its customers. They continue to accuse Apple of creating a monopoly on how consumers access apps on iPhones by inserting an environment that gives its users false protection.
According to them, this is just a way for Apple to remain unique in providing apps for iOS and iPadOS, nullifying any chance of creating a worthy competitor.
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