Apple tipped for Russian app first - Mobile World Live 17 MAR 2021 Various Russian media reported Apple agreed to allow domestic apps to be pre-installed on iPhones and other devices for the first time, as the nation prepares to implement laws which would ban products without local options. The move appears to allay fears Apple could quit the country, reported when Russia passed the legislation in late 2019. At the time, the government aimed to implement the rules in July 2020, but postponed until 1 April after the Russian Association of Trading Companies and Manufacturers of Household Electrical Equipment and Computers (RATEK) said its members considered it impossible to meet the original deadline.