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\tGoogle and Apple faced further pressure on their respective app store policies, being accused of unfairly restricting tens of millions of app developers working on Covid-19 (coronavirus) related services in complaints sent to six global competition regulators.<\/p>\n

The complaints were made by intellectual property activist and app developer Florian Mueller. In a blog, he argued the tech giants’ rules covering Covid-19 apps were \u201cunreasonably restrictive\u201d and \u201ctotally inconsistent with the fact that both Apple and Google distribute products that definitely misinform users” regarding the virus and its symptoms.<\/p>\n

Mueller sent formal grievances to competition authorities in Australia, Germany, the Netherlands, US, UK and European Union after the companies demanded he amend a Covid-19 focused mobile game to be about viruses in general rather than coronavirus before allowing it onto their marketplaces.<\/p>\n

“People who are looking for a Covid-themed game should be able to find it, because it’s a legitimate game about viral infections.”<\/p>\n

Criticism of the companies’ policies increased during 2020, with a high-profile example being a spat with Epic Games [1].<\/p>\n

Apple also faces scrutiny from\u00a0regulators in Europe [2], the US, Japan, South Korea and Australia.<\/p>\n

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