Apple trashes Facebook report, calls it “seriously flawed”

San Francisco: Apple has rejected a new Facebook-commissioned study that claimed that Apple and Google’s pre-installed apps dominate key categories, making it harder for third-party developers to compete.

The study by US-based media measurement and analytics company Comscore and commissioned by Facebook showed that 75 per cent of the top 20 apps on iOS in the US were made by Apple, while Google made 60 per cent of the top apps on Android.

However, an Apple spokesperson called the report “narrowly tailored” and “seriously flawed”, reports The Verge.

“This Facebook-financed survey from December 2020 was narrowly tailored to give the false impression that there’s little competition on the App Store,” the spokesperson was quoted as saying in the report.