It also makes parents dependent upon Apple for determining standards for parental monitoring, device use balance, digital education, and overall children’s digital safety. “It’s about innovation and being able to continually deliver the best technology to our users to help them care for and protect their children in a world where harmful content and apps are evolving constantly.”Īpple's blocking and delisting of competitive parental control apps in the App Store leaves users with no freedom of choice and puts children who use iOS devices exposed to greater threats online. Standing up to Apple is about even more than fair competition,” Kidslox CEO Viktor Yevpak said. "To create Screen Time, Apple took the best pieces and best practices from existing parental control and wellbeing apps in the App Store, bringing no tangible innovations to market. “We’re requesting the European Commission take action to ensure fair and honest competition.” The company acts as both a marketplace and a gatekeeper and uses its dominant position to create exclusive competitive advantage for its own service," Qustodio CEO Eduardo Cruz said. "With the introduction of Apple's Screen Time, developers in the parental control category experienced unprecedented anti-competitive behavior from Apple. On top of that, Apple went so far as to terminate apps from developers who did not take defensive measures against Apple's systematic hostilities, fatally harming such businesses in the process. Since then, Apple has arbitrarily blocked the most relevant parental control apps in the market from making app updates, hindering innovation and potential growth. Screen Time uses exclusive technologies not available to other app developers in the category, comes at zero price point, and does not operate on non-iOS devices, further locking users into the Apple ecosystem. The Qustodio and Kidslox apps, and those of their competitors, had been available and coexisting peacefully on the App Store for years until Apple moved into the space as a competitor in September of 2018 by pre-installing its own Screen Time service on all iOS 12 devices, activating it by default, and making it non-removable from those devices in any way. Qustodio and Kidslox develop parental control apps that help millions of parents worldwide protect their children online by allowing them to supervise and block harmful content and create healthy digital habits. BRUSSELS, Belgium, Ap(GLOBE NEWSWIRE) - Qustodio and Kidslox, two leading companies in the parental control market, have filed a complaint against Apple with the European Commission Directorate-General for Competition (EC DGComp) in regards to severe anti-competitive practices in the iOS App Store.
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