Yesterday, Tim Cook was in charge of opening the statements of the technological giants to which they were accuse of exercising a monopoly against other smaller companies. Apple, Google, Facebook, are called, among others, to declare and defend of the accusations. It is reported that their competition is unfair and that they do not allow the "little ones" to play on the same field.
Tim Cook's antitrust plea to Congress is very categorical
The Antitrust Subcommittee of the Judicial Branch of the House of Representatives has more than a million documents to back up your argument that these Silicon Valley giants are stifling the competition. Apple CEO Tim Cook released his opening statement yesterday ahead of the historic hearing.
We approach this process with respect and humility. However we do not make any concessions about the facts.
For the vast majority of applications on the App Store, developers keep XNUMX% of the money they earn. The only applications that are subject to a commission are those in which the developer purchases a customer on an Apple device. It also has to be complemented with the features or services to be experienced and consumed on an Apple device.
The only applications that are subject to a commission, are those in which the developer acquires a client on an Apple device. Where also the features or services would be experienced and consumed on a company device. The company's commissions are comparable to or lower than the commissions charged by most of our competitors. And they are much lower than the 50 to 70 percent that software developers paid to distribute their work before launching the App Store.
App Store developers set prices for their apps and never pay for waiting space. Apple continually improves and provides all developers with cutting-edge tools such as compilers, programming languages, operating systems, frameworks, and more than 150.000 essential software building blocks called APIs. These are not only great, but so easy to use that students in elementary schools can and do apply.
App Store guidelines ensure a. They are transparent and apply equally to developers of all sizes and in all categories.
This is just an excerpt of the appearance of the CEO of Apple that made yesterday before Congress. His appearance was not the only one, since there were also Jeff Bezos from Amazon, Mark Zuckerberg from Facebook and Sundar Pichai from Alphabet.
If you want to access the complete document, composed of four pages, you can do it by clicking right here.
