Senate antitrust hearing on app stores gives Apple critics a big soapbox

Senate antitrust hearing on app stores gives Apple critics a big soapbox

3 years ago
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https://techcrunch.com/2021/04/21/senate-antitrust-hearing-apple-tile-spotify-match-epic/

The latest hearing to target big tech will drill down on competition in Appleā€™s App Store and Google Play. The hearing, set for Wednesday at 2:30PM ET, will feature testimony from the two big app store gatekeepers, and three companies that have banded together to critique the immense power that Apple and Google command in the mobile software market.

Last year, 13 app makers banded together to create the Coalition for App Fairness, a group organizing against Apple in particular for its stranglehold over app distribution and the hefty fees it collects from software developers. The group is linked to legislation in states like North Dakota that seeks to make state laws more more favorable to software makers by removing app store fees.