Apple is under a lot of supervision and pressure today by handling the App Store business. Epic games may have fired opening shots but also creating a domino effect where the dominance of the iPhone maker in the eCosystem itself is being checked more intense than before. A set of bipartisan bills is driven in the US Congress that will change the way Apple Preloaded applications on the iPhone and iPad, not only allowing users to completely remove the first party application loaded before but also forbid Apple from the first place.
The preloaded application has always been a dispute point in the cellular world. On Android, this has been strictly called Bloatware because they take storage space without offering the actual value of users. While the situation is not as bad as the IOS fence side, it takes a different character where Apple is accused of monopolizing the application market by placing its own application on the device by default.
In the term anti competitive, this means that new iPhone owners tend to try alternatives for Apple applications, thinking they even know that alternative is there. As the creator of iPhone and iOS, Apple has the advantage of being able to decide which application has been installed before on each device. The five antitrust bills are now trying to say it shouldn’t be.
One part of a series of bills will prohibit apples from pre installing applications that have alternatives that compete in the App Store. The other part will stop Apple from the user blocking that wants to delete the previously installed application installation installed on the device. That said, Apple has let delete the previous application since IOS 12.
In the European Union, Apple struggles against different iOS applications. Act or DMA The proposed digital market will force the company to allow sideloading or install applications outside the App Store. Although this will open an iOS ecosystem similar to Android, CEO of Apple Tim Cook defends that it will not for the best interest of iPhone users, citing security implications that such laws will bring to the platform.
