Apple iPhone’s Business to be Officially Investigated by the FTC

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The quarrel between Apple and Adobe has been going on for months now and it looks like the FTC is finally going to look into that whole predicament. More importantly the FTC is going to analyze all Apple’s iPhone-related policies and we can’t wait to hear their conclusions on the matter.

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission is reported by the Wall Street Journal to start an Apple investigation in order to see whether the Cupertino-based company is harming competition with its recent business practices and policies in the mobile environment.

As you already know on top of the fact that Apple has closed its iOS doors to Adobe’s Flash, the company has also made sure that its mobile platform will no longer support mobile ads coming from AdMob which is owned by archenemy Google. We talked about that new section 3.3.9 before but it looks like we’re not the only ones to focus on it.

The FTC was busy hunting down Google for their recent AdMob acquisition and the Commission is certainly used to thorough investigations. And this whole Apple thing will probably turn into a very long and very debated investigation. Apple will certainly have enough people to support its claims and actions in the mobile business but many of its competitors will probably find ways to voice their issues with Steve Jobs’ ways of doing business when it comes to mobile devices.

And, ironically, it’s Apple that helped the FTC decide to let Google proceed with its AdMob purchase earlier this year, but now that Cupertino is under the same FTC scrutiny I doubt Google will come to the rescue.

Whether we like it or not, Apple is turning into a bigger and bigger player in the mobile business and the FTC’s upcoming conclusions on Apple’s recent decisions might have a deep impact on the future of Apple’s iPhone-related business.

What do you say, consumers? Are you for or against Apple?