As stated in the department, the American company limited competition in the market for the distribution of tools and opportunities for developing parental control applications.
The offense itself was expressed in the fact that Apple has been pursuing a policy since October 2018 to limit the tools and capabilities for developing parental control applications. Because of this, most of the functionality of third-party applications has been lost.
“The implementation of such a policy coincided in time with the release of the company's own pre-installed Screen time application, which has functionality similar to that of parental control applications,” the FAS explained.
As the commission of the department established, the American company abused its dominant position in relation to the developers of parental control mobile applications.
Also, Apple has limited competition in the market for applications for mobile devices that run on iOS, it said. In addition, the company has reserved the right to reject and prevent any third-party app from the App Store, even if it meets all the requirements added to the service.
Deputy Head of the Federal Antimonopoly Service Alexei Dotsenko stressed that access to the App Store is the only opportunity for developers to distribute their products on the iOS operating system
“It is extremely important to create non-discriminatory conditions for market access to ensure competition,” he said.
The case was opened on 8 August. In "Kaspersky Lab" announced "unreasonable rejection of versions of the parental control program Kaspersky Safe Kids (KSK) by Apple."