Last week Apple surprised with the fulminant withdrawal of the AppGratis application from its download platform App Store A tool that offers completely free offers and applications on a daily basis, serving as a showcase for developers and a bargains place for users. Now, the French Government (AppGratis is a French company), decides to take action on the matter and defend this application against those of Cupertino because of what happened last week.
Thus, the French Vice President of Digital Economy, Fleur Pellerin , plans to file a formal complaint with the European Commission for considering that the removal of this application is an “abusive” practice and “brutal”. And he thinks that Brussels has the power to regulate the platforms digital networks, social networks and search engines In addition, he adds that such behavior “is not worthy of a company of that size”A practice that some companies that do business on the Internet carry out and that the European Union could regulate if the European Commission so decides.
In view of this fact, Apple has responded to the agency Reutersstating that, at the time, the AppGratis company was informed about the violation of the App Store terms of use , further stating that it was ignoredAll this prior to the elimination of the application And the publication rules on this platform are quite strict , surpassed in several points by the operation of AppGratis
In this way it is known that it violates the rule 2.20, which limits the number of versions of an application, knowing that AppGratis has 20 for different countries Or other questions about spam , such as 2.25, which prevents apps from existing that promote or sell products being able to get confused with the service of the own App Store; or 5.6, which prevents the use of notifications to carry out announcements and advertising promotions Issue thatface the AppGratis business model with these rules
And it is that AppGratis works to offer promotions and discounts that it gets directly from the developers to offer them to the users. A company that already has 12 million subscribed users, and with profits of around 700,000 euros per month However, since last Friday its growth has been limited by not having the application that gives way to its service so that new users can get it download.
However, your service is still active, and iPhone users and iPad that have the application will continue to be able to access the daily offers and discounts of AppGratis In the meantime, new users will have to be content with entering their email on the website for iPhone and for iPad of AppGratis and receive offers through this medium.A solution less convenient than an application where you can search for all kinds of applications, butfunctional
We will have to wait and see if the European Commission decides to intervene in the matter and establish its criteria to limit digital platforms For now there is a petition where anyone can sign to request Apple to bring AppGratis back into the App Store. An application that has already been signed more than 750,000 people
