Shulou(Shulou.com)11/24 Report--

CTOnews.com, February 2 (Xinhua)-- the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) issued an announcement today aimed at forcing Apple and Google to open third-party app stores to improve the user experience by increasing competition. This means that the United States may follow the European market and ask Apple and Google to open up third-party app stores.

In today's "NTIA calls for change to promote competition in the mobile app market," NTIA said that the existing mobile app mall model of Apple App Store and Google Play Store is harmful to consumers and developers, and suggested changing policies to address the problem.

NTIA said in the announcement that the existing policies of Apple and Google drive up the price of apps and reduce innovation in the industry, and consumers will suffer in the end. CTOnews.com learned that the Biden government hopes to force the two companies to open third-party app stores in the process of promoting innovation and competition as well as fair economic competition.

The report mentions two problems with Apple's and Google's existing app store models:

The app store is basically controlled by Apple and Google, and consumers are basically unable to obtain apps from other sources. This means that innovators have very limited access to consumers.

Apple and Google set barriers for developers to attract users by imposing technical restrictions. For example, restrict the way applications run or require developers to go through a slow and opaque review process.

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