Telegram filed a formal antitrust complaint before the European Union About Apple App Store Practices In the past week. Which joins those of other great app developers who come together to fight against the rules of the Apple App Store.
In the Telegram complaint It argues that Apple should "allow users the ability to download software outside of the App Store."
And is that the number of antitrust complaints against the App Store has grown since Telegram. In this new complaint, the general feeling is that not allowing users to download applications from other sources is detrimental to competition.
In June, Spotify and Rakuten complained to the EU that the App Store is a monopoly power, as developers must agree to Apple's terms, including that commission on App Store purchases.
In a post last Tuesday, Telegram's co-founder and CEO, Pavel Durov, outlined seven reasons why he thinks iPhone users should be concerned by the behavior of the company.
These reasons range from the claim that Apple's 30% fee for developers of applications increases prices for iPhone users.
“Apple's 30% commission makes all digital products and applications more expensive for you. It adds to the price you pay developers for all the services and games you buy on your phone.
You pay more for each app, even though Apple has already charged you a few hundred dollars more for your iPhone than it cost to do so. In short, you keep paying even after paying ”.
Besides that Apple's policies also force developers to sell user data. Other reasons Durov cites are censorship concerns, given that Apple controls what is allowed and what is not in its store online; It also criticizes app update delays stemming from Apple's app review process.
As well states that the structure of the App Store is hostile to user privacy:
"Apple's policies are putting pressure on the entire industry to sell user data instead of allowing them to adopt more privacy-friendly business models, such as selling additional services to their users."
The previous Monday, Durov also posted that he attacks a number of "myths" that Apple claims to be using to try to justify the 30% fee for using its app store: such as the claim that the app store commission administers the app. deal.
“Every quarter, Apple receives billions of dollars from third-party applications. Meanwhile, the expense to host and review these applications is in the tens of millions, not billions of dollars.
We know this because in Telegram we present and review more public content than the App Store will do ”.
According to another argument refuted by the CEO of Telegram, iOS faces significant competition from developers, or that developers can choose not to develop for iOS and only release Android apps.
"Try to imagine Telegram or TikTok as exclusive Android applications and you will quickly see why it is impossible to avoid Apple," he wrote. “You cannot exclude iPhone users. As for iPhone users, the cost to consumers of switching from iPhone to Android is so high that it can be seen as a monopoly lock, "he wrote, citing a study by Yale University to support this claim.
Apple's main argument against complaints of 'application taxes' the claim remains that Apple cannot have monopoly power, given its relatively small market share for mobile operating systems (compared to Android). Apple also says the App Store tax is fair because it is basically the same tax as everyone else.
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I use Telegram, in fact it is the only messaging program that I use, however, when I asked for a download link, it was Google Play, they answered the following:
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Where do I download the official apk for my cell phone running Android 4.4.2? I do not have access to Google Play because I do not accept its terms and conditions of use. Today I received a message from Telegram to update the version because it would soon be unusable. Thanks.
Support volunteers, [17.09.19 13:36]
Hello! Sorry, but the only way to get the Telegram app is through Google Play.
You may be able to find the installer in some unofficial source, but we cannot guarantee that the app has not been modified. "
I understand that the situation is not the same as the one discussed in this article, but it is at least similar at some point.
Greetings.
"Similar at some point"
Q is the same as comparing a hand with a foot. Without a clear context, it is a comparison that is useless x to anything.
On the other hand, I also use TG and I don't go with GP either. Which leaves you with the option of getting TG by your side, as the TG people themselves suggested… and as I obviously do.
I have had problems? Not to date. Wouldn't I be safer if I dropped it from GP? Not really. There are few times that hundreds and thousands of apps with spurious code were found in GP. So your so-called "security" is worth less than a bird.
So all you have to do is make backups and learn to be responsible for your own information. Because ultimately, if you don't take care of yourself, nobody takes care of you (x a lot that Google, Mozilla, M $, FB and whoever, they tear their clothes swearing that they do).