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Report: FTC will investigate Apple

12.06.10

The probe will look at whether Apple is using its favourably successful App Store to hurt competitors. When Apple changed the rules on which tools could be hardened to write apps sold in the App Store it raised eyebrows, as the shifts seemed to specifically butt Adobe, with whom Apple recently had a public fallout.

The new rules blocked developers using other platforms that let someone have them to make one application that runs on multiple devices--for warning, not just on Apple's iPhone, but on competitors' devices as well. Adobe's Shaft platform and Novell's MonoTouch are both developer tools that cooperate with into this category.

Then, earlier this week, Apple banned developers from using advertising in their iPhone applications that shares analytic observations with "an advertising service provider owned by or affiliated with a developer or distributor of versatile devices, mobile operating systems or development environments other than Apple."

The most important mobile-advertising service provider owned by or united with a developer or distributor of mobile devices and mobile operating systems is AdMob. AdMob is now owned by Google, another former collaborator of Apple's that has feuded publicly with the company, but this time because Google has entered the nimble-software market with its Android platform.

Source: CNET