Ethics and transparency of Biobiochile
The expert in Economic Law, Francisco Agüero, commented that Apple could live a “similar situation” to that of Google, a company against which the National Economic Prosecutor’s Office (FNE) presented a requirement in the Court of Defense of free Competition (TDLC).
The entity in charge of promoting and defending free competition carried out this action accusing a dominant position in the market distribution markets and digital goods on Android.
The FNE also requested a fine of 101,482 annual tax units, equivalent to almost US $ 89 million (more than 83 billion pesos), and measures to stop the anti -competitive practices in force since 2019.
The scenario that Apple with Google could share
Faced with this scenario, Agüero, also a researcher at the Center for Regularization and Competition of the University of Chile, explained that “it is an investigation that began a complaint of a lawyer before the National Economic Prosecutor’s Office regarding Google and Apple.”
“Both have the monopoly regarding the operating systems that we have installed on the phone. In addition, they have the monopoly, in the case of Google Play, where applications are downloaded,” he added.
It is worth mentioning that both multinational companies are being investigated for similar practices in other parts of the world.
On the other hand, the academic explained that it points against “practices of companies that have the domain of operating systems (…) prevent those who have an application, in this case installed on Google Play, they can redirect to cheaper payment systems”.
“In this way, Google extends their domain position and prevents application developers from going to alternative means of payment and, finally, users are also affected, because there is less freedom and not being able to choose the means of payment, we see higher prices,” he continued.
On the other hand, Agüero said that “this is an investigation that the Prosecutor’s Office took for almost two years and media, and it must
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