Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) fined Apple for 906 million rubles (more than $ 12 million), the Office of the Office.
Penalty was appointed for violation of Russian anti-monopoly legislation. In August last year, the FAS completed the consideration of the case with respect to the company, which opened after the complaint of Kaspersky Lab. The agency found out that the IT giant abused the dominant position in the mobile application market on the IOS operating system.
The FAS believes that Apple’s actions “led to the provision of competitive advantages to their own products and simultaneous deterioration of the distribution of competitors’ products – applications of” Parental Control “. In addition, the company must remove from its documentation provision giving it the right to reject in the App Store Applications of third-party developers for any reason, even if they meet all requirements.