Apple continued its impassioned protection in opposition to a brand new crop of antitrust payments on Wednesday, advising lawmakers that the laws’s suggestion that the corporate open itself as much as third-party app shops would spell catastrophe for shoppers by exposing them to unvetted scams and violating their privateness.

In a well-timed report printed to its web site titled “Building a Trusted Ecosystem for Millions of Apps,” Apple fastidiously mounts the argument that to eliminate the App Store — the place apps “come from known developers who have agreed to follow our guidelines, and are securely distributed to users free from interference from third parties” — would concurrently hurt shoppers, builders and the market writ massive.

“We review every single app and each app update to evaluate whether they meet our high standards,” Apple wrote within the report. “This process, which we are constantly working to improve, is designed to protect our users by keeping malware, cybercriminals, and scammers out of the App Store.”

The App Store is at the moment a giant sticking level for lawmakers, who contend that retailer’s very existence is anticompetitive. For reference, apps represent a $142 billion market, and a few estimates have Apple’s App Store benefiting from working margins that quantity to almost 78%.

In the tough textual content of one of many six antitrust payments at the moment being proposed, lawmakers declare that it must be “…unlawful for a person operating a covered platform, in or affecting commerce, to restrict or impede the capacity of a business user to access or interoperate with the same platform, operating system, hardware and software features that are available to the covered platform operator’s own products, services, or lines of business.”

Apple, in a letter to lawmakers, mentioned it was “concerned that current proposals would harm consumer privacy, device security, and innovation. We urge the Committee not to approve the proposed legislation in its current form, and we look forward to engaging with the Committee going forward.”