Apple may be receiving praise for its approach to user privacy, but regulators have spent 2021 raising concerns about how it and Google operate their respective iOS and Android app stores. In Apple’s case, because its App Store is the only way users can download apps onto an Apple device, concerns have been raised about it being able to stifle competition by pushing its own services over those of its rivals and having a monopoly over the apps that appear in the store, as well as requiring app developers to use Apple’s payment system for in-app purchases which Apple takes a commission from. For Google, critics argue that its pre-loading of Google apps onto Android devices is also unfair and anti-competitive and its payment system structure is, like Apple’s, unfair. Do you think that United states regulations highly favors the big giants ?

