Russian authorities will relax the requirement on the preset domestic softserve Dragun | 19.06.2020
The FAS will make concessions instead of PE will be sufficient to set icons for individual downloading, writes “Kommersant”. New requirements can theoretically combine preset with
work in the closed Apple ecosystem.
FAS has sent the government a draft decree on the mandatory preset domestic applications and programs on smart phones, computers, and Smart TV. The regulator expects that his
will take until July 1.
The requirements will apply only to smartphones, computers, laptops and TV. In the list of tablets, smart watches and trackers. Candidate for inclusion in the list must have at least 100 thousand
downloads or 100 thousand unique users a day, and to promote the dissemination of socially significant information and moral values. Under the latter probably refers to
Orthodox social network and the Jelica mountain Orthodox search engine Rublev — if you type in the search box the word “porn”, it will give a reference to the seventh commandment.
Smartphone manufacturers will be obliged to establish 13 kinds of apps: search services, maps, antivirus, application services, online cinema, instant messengers and social networks, the cloud
storage, office software, news aggregator, and voice assistant.
On laptops and PC have put the 12 categories of programs, and Smart TV — three (live theater, services of viewing of publicly accessible mandatory TV and a news aggregator).
It is important that pre-application in full optional — you can place the icons by which the consumer will be able to download the software. This measure is a loophole for Apple. It
remains the last major company that still has not gone to the FAS and will not install Russian.
Other manufacturers are not so categorical. Samsung and Huawei have already agreed to a preset.
Market participants must be at least 18 months to prepare for the new requirements, and the cost of each manufacturer will exceed $1 million, which will lead to higher prices for smartphones are not less than 500 RUB
sure RATEK. The Association offers to return the Ordinance back for revision and to postpone the date of its entry into force until July 1, 2022.
domestic software, mobile applications
