Amaya Toman US senator and presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren announced last Friday in an interview with The Verge that she wishes Apple would not sell its own apps on the App Store. She characterized Apple's actions as exploiting its market dominance.
Warren explained, among other things, that a company cannot run its App Store while selling its own apps on it. In her statement, she called on Apple to separate from the App Store. "It has to be one or the other," she said, adding that the Cupertino giant can either run its online app store or sell apps, but definitely not both.
To the magazine's question The Verge, how Apple should distribute its applications without running the App Store - which also serves Apple as one of the methods of securing the iPhone ecosystem - the senator did not answer. She emphasized, however, that if the company operates a platform on which others sell their applications, it cannot also sell its products there, because in that case it uses two competitive advantages. The senator considers the possibility of collecting data from other sellers as well as the ability to prioritize one's own products over others.
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The senator compares her plan to "break up big technology" to a time when railroads dominated the country. At that time, the railway companies found that they did not have to just sell train tickets, but they could also buy out the ironworks and thus reduce their material costs, while the price of the material increased for the competition.
The senator does not describe this way of acting as competition, but as simple use of market dominance. In addition to the division of Apple and the App Store, Elizabeth Warren is also calling for the division of companies, operating a business and exceeding the annual income of 25 billion dollars, into several smaller ones.
Elizabeth Warren is actively participating in the campaign for the 2020 presidential election. It can be assumed that statements regarding Silicon Valley and local companies will also come from the other candidates. A number of politicians are demanding that technology companies adapt more to supervision and regulations.
when technology firms adapt to regulation, they will no longer be technology
Yeah! And bakers should be prohibited from selling their own bread when they also sell others from other producers... ?
This is again a pre-election topic how ??.
I thought the exact same thing?
The senator is probably in transition and has hot flushes and then sweats like pearls.