App Store: North Dakota wants to end monopoly, which bothers Apple

The North Dakota Senate presented a new law which aims to put an end to the monopoly of the App Store. By law, the App Store is not the one and only place where users can download apps. Unsurprisingly, this annoys Apple.

North Dakota vs Apple for the App Store monopoly

The law (Senate Bill 2333) should allow users to download iOS apps from anywhere, without necessarily being the App Store. There is also talk of no longer forcing developers to use Apple’s payment system. This would give them a little more freedom and avoid having to pay a 15% or 30% commission to Apple. Also, the law wants Apple to no longer force developers to go through in-app purchases for a particular service.

Erik Neuenschwander, Apple’s chief privacy engineer, criticized the law. According to him, she “Threatens to destroy the iPhone as you know it”. He considers that the changes required “Would undermine the privacy, security, safety and performance of the iPhone”. Erik Neuenschwander adds that Apple ” work hard “ to check all apps in the app store and reject bad ones.

Nothing has been done for the moment, the law has not yet been voted. But it just might be, and it would mark a big change for Apple. Indeed, can Apple afford to completely change its system in relation to the App Store because of a state in the United States? It is true that the manufacturer has been in the sights of the authorities for a while now, precisely for its practices deemed anti-competitive.