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Apple accused of monopolizing App Store by longtime rival Cydia

By Amy Miller ( December 10, 2020, 21:44 GMT | Insight) -- One of Apple’s oldest competitors is suing hoping to force the iPhone maker to allow alternatives to its App Store, the latest in a string of antitrust cases filed against the tech giant. Cydia, a once-popular app store for the iPhone that launched in 2008, alleges that Apple’s anticompetitive practices almost destroyed the company to make way for the App Store. Now Apple maintains a monopoly over software distribution on iOS, its mobile operating system, which has led to higher prices, and allowed Apple to take a 30 percent cut of the $50 billion the App Store generates annually, Cydia alleged in its complaint.One of Apple’s oldest competitors is suing hoping to force the iPhone maker to allow alternatives to its App Store, the latest in a string of antitrust cases filed against the tech giant....

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