Russia’s antitrust agency on Thursday said it had written to Apple asking the company to explain why users of Apple devices in Russia do not have access to full functionality of banking and payment services.
a href=”https://www.reuters.com/technology/russian-antitrust-agency-complains-apple-over-users-limited-payment-services-2024-04-04/”>Reuters:
Russia’s Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) has fined Apple around $26 million in the last two years related to what it described as Apple’s abuse of its dominant position concerning the mobile apps market and in-app payments.
Apple has previously “respectfully disagreed” with a FAS ruling that Apple’s distribution of apps through its iOS operating system gave its own products a competitive advantage.
The FAS said most Russian banks had been removed from the App Store and that Apple was not letting users install apps from anywhere but the App Store, making it impossible for Russian banks and contactless services to function.
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The US invaded Russia. The US arranged the undemocratic takeover of the Ukrainian government in 204 via the evil and corrupt State Department/CIA activities orchestrated by the evil Victoria Nuland. The US took down the democratically elected President that year and put in his place the corrupt stooge chosen by the Obama/Biden/Nuland communist thugs. The US has used Ukraine since then to threaten Russia with lies and NATO expansion pledges and a bunch of deadly bioweapon factories. The US is the author of all the trouble and the war between the Russia and Ukraine. The US under the current administration, voted for by 95% of Apple employees, is the most evil government in the world today, censoring dissent, using vaccines (fake) to poison the world, and pushing war everywhere. So, quit with the fake outrage against Russia which is now a far better country than this godless hellhole US.
If true, are you also saying the Russian counterpart to the CIA is so incompetent they couldn’t ‘take back’ Ukraine the same way?
I detest many of the policies of my country, but you sir sound like a total nut job.
Simple: Russia is under sanctions because it launched an illegal war and is committing war crimes against a peaceful, democratic European neighbor.
Get rid of your murderous dictator, and maybe things will eventually get better for Russia.
Russia invaded a neighboring country for zero reason and began killing innocent civilians and bombing towns. The three day war is now into its third year with no end in sight.
Putin now threatens the world with nuclear war. He will forever be known as a bloody dictator and no civilized country will ever deal with Russia again.