In the conflict between it and the EU over the obligations imposed by the European regulation on digital markets (DMA), Apple sharply criticized its rival Meta on Wednesday over interoperability. The Apple brand, forced to further open its ecosystem to competition, must allow its rivals and app developers to integrate their services with its own by accessing key functions of its systems and devices. According to Apple, Meta has already made fifteen interoperability requests, far more than any other company. “And it’s not over,” adds the Cupertino company, which highlights risks for the confidentiality of user data of its products, such as the iPhone.
If Apple acceded to all of Meta’s requests, the latter’s applications (Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp) could allow it to “read on a user’s device all their messages and emails, see every phone call that he passes or receives, to follow each application he uses, scan all his photos, consult his files and calendar events, save all his passwords, and much more”, warns the apple brand in a press release published on its site dedicated to developers.
“Every time Apple is called into question for its anti-competitive behavior, it defends itself by invoking reasons linked to the protection of privacy which have no basis in reality,” Meta replied in a press release.
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