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Apple facing antitrust inquiry over iPhone developing restrictions
Brandon Davenport
Apple’s risky decision to block third party developing tools, like flash, to have the ability to make iPhone apps has gotten every tech-enthusiast all hot and bothered, and has come back to bite Apple in the butt.
The Federal Trade Commission and the Department of Justice are currently contemplating over which agency should be tasked with a potential antitrust inquiry to be shot at Apple for those decisions.
This is going to make somewhat of an up-roar in the industry, and if this goes through, it will be a benefit for developers, probably allowing them to use third party tools to develop iPhone and iPad apps.
Apple is inching closer and closer to becoming a completely closed platform - not allowing third party anything, and herding everyone into the pen of a locked system. Since they are gaining huge amounts of power in the mobile market, they are leveraging it to be the top dog, and maybe eliminate the competition completely.
