Epic Games, Spotify and a handful of others have launched The Coalition for App fairness, a nonprofit meant to ramp up pressure on Apple over App store charges, transparency and access. Epic, the h…
Epic, the home of Fortnite, is currently in a legal tussle with Apple in the U.S. and Spotify is fighting them in the EU, targeting the 30% fee Apple charges developers for App Store transactions. The Washington, D.C.-based Coalition for App Fairness
“CAF offers membership to companies of any size, in any industry who are committed to protecting consumer choice, fostering competition, and creating a level playing field for all app and game developers globally,” the Coalition new website said. If laid out a kind of Bill of Right for App Developer with ten principles.
They say a developer’s data should not be used to compete with the developer and that every developer should always have the right to communicate directly with its users through its app for legitimate business purposes. Also, it says, no app store owner should prohibit third parties from offering competing app stores on the app store owner’s platform, or discourage developers or consumers from using them.
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