U.S. lawmakers consider bill that would block Apple from pre-installing its apps on the iPhone Jun 16, 2021, 3:18 PM 8
Know all of those pre-installed iOS apps that come with a newly purchased Apple iPhone? If Congress gets its way, they will be banned under antitrust reform legislation introduced last week. This is the word from Rep. David Cicilline (D-RI) according to Bloomberg.
The Representative has been one of the members of the House looking to punish several big name tech firms for alleged anticompetitive behavior including Apple, Google, Facebook, and Amazon. One of the proposals of the aforementioned legislation would prevent tech platforms from placing their own products above those of competitors. And Cicilline says that this would prevent Apple from pre-installing its own iOS apps on the iPhone.
Apple has reportedly admitted that it manually boosted the ranking of its own Files app when users searched for its competitor Dropbox for nearly 11 months.
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Apple has reportedly admitted that it manually boosted the ranking of its own Files app when users searched for its competitor Dropbox for nearly 11 months.According to The Verge, an email chain has surfaced during the Epic vs Apple trial that .