Clearly, legislators are far from having finished withApple. Because in addition tothe situation in which the brand faces the European Commission, it is in discussions with a Representative of the United Stateswhich highlights the lack of impartiality of iOStowards the Apple firm's competitors.
And it's not about to get better: in fact, following his discussions with Tim Cook's team, David Cicilline, in charge of the case, reiterated new accusations. He suspects that the developers of the operating system ofiPhonecreate new functionalities under the guise of privacy protection... While these play the role of a real obstacle to the development of companies with the same revenue model.
GPS in the viewfinder
The problematic situation is illustrated very well by taking the example ofTile. This startup makes connected key fobs that need access to a device's location to function properly. And it works, since more than 100 million dollars have been invested in this success story.
Except that since an iOS update… This is no longer possible. Indeed, in order to guarantee moreconfidentiality, location information may no longer be transmitted to the Tile app permanently, which drastically reduces the effectiveness of the associated gadget.
When we know that a similar tracker,AirTag, seems to be in Apple's pipeline, we can therefore legitimately question its position vis-à-vis the competition if it takes better advantage of GPS because it is considered an important part of the Internet user's mobile ecosystem. This is not the company's first service to be singled out for this type of practice: Apple Music, Safari and especially the App Store are also in the same situation.
