According to information from the Nikkei news service, there will be Applem to deal with Japan's Competition Bureau because the company violated its antitrust laws by unfairly pushing Yahoo Japan.
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Yahoo Japan was formed as part of Yahoo and Softbank in 1996. After Verizon bought the majority of Yahoo 20 years later, Yahoo Japan spun off and continues to use the name as part of an ongoing licensing agreement.
Yahoo Japan launched an interesting web gaming platform Game Plus in July 2017, with which it decided to cooperate with 50 companies, including Square Enix, which is known for its great Final Fantasy series. The platform was designed to bypass classic online app stores and offer better conditions to developers. The service allowed users to play a large number of games for free without the need to download them. Yahoo Japan had big plans for Game Plus. With around 60 million monthly active users and the ability to monitor, for example, information about search history and a list of games that users are willing to pay for, it planned to help developers create titles that would appeal to players. Last but not least, the range of applications offered was to be expanded to include regular applications. However, in the fall, the company announced to several business partners that it was forced to reduce the budget for maintaining the service and was now stopping supporting the service altogether. The reason is allegedly pressure from behind the scenes Appyou.
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It is clear that this circumvention procedure App Store AppThe Competition Authority did not like how and if it intervened in this service at all. App Store is one of the company's main sources of revenue (last year alone, app sales of $13 billion came from Japan) and gives Appcontrol over the safety of applications that users download. This unpleasant situation will certainly be resolved, the relations between Appleand Japan are very good. Earlier this year, the sales director announced Applu for retail relations, that in the next 5 years it plans Apple to open several in Japan Apple Stores.
