“Izvestia”: the FAS saw signs of violation of Russian legislation in Apple’s actions

2024-04-04T02:42:42.056Z

Highlights: The Federal Antimonopoly Service considers it a violation of Russian antimonopoly legislation. Apple has removed mobile applications from most domestic financial organizations from the App Store and does not allow them into it. Previously, most Apple services experienced a glitch. Roskachestvo also said that Apple and Google could turn off smartphones in Russia, but suffer damage. The Izvestia newspaper writes about this with reference to the FAS press service. “Currently, Russian users of iOS devices... actually cannot use their functionality to receive banking services and make payments,” the message says.

The Federal Antimonopoly Service considers it a violation of Russian antimonopoly legislation that Apple limits the availability of Russian bank applications in the App Store and does not allow the installation of applications from other resources.