Cook: Apple control over app store is to keep it simple and safe for customers

Tim Cook has denied that Apple’s app store constitutes a monopoly for the company (Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)

Apple CEO Tim Cook described the company’s ironclad control over its mobile app store as a way to keep things simple for customers while protecting them against security threats and privacy intrusions when he appeared in a courtroom on Friday.

He denied allegations that Apple has been running a monopoly.