Clearly, Mark Zuckerberg never misses an opportunity to express himself on the App Store. We were talking aboutlast weekhis very critical comments. In particular, he believed that the application store “blocks innovation, blocks competition» and takes advantage of its monopoly situation to make developers pay.
“Apple has unilateral control over what happens to phones”
Asked about this again during an interview given toAxios, he felt that the latter deserved “careful examination". Asked if the App Store is a monopoly, he answers: “I think they definitely have unilateral control over what comes to phones in terms of apps. So I think there are questions that people should be asking about this control of the App Store and whether that allows for a fairly robust competitive dynamic.».
Mark Zuckerberg, on the other hand, compliments the Google Play Store which allows applications downloaded from alternative application stores: “As a developer, if you're not in the Play Store, at least you still have a way to see your app come to people's devices.» The founder of Facebook is far from being the first to express his concerns about the App Store and in this he joins themany reviewsaddressed in recent weeks.
