THE VERGE – Aug 13 – There's a new bill targeting the power Apple and Google have over the app store market. The bipartisan "Open App Markets Act," introduced by Sens. Richard Blumenthal, Marsha Blackburn, and Amy Klobuchar would ban app stores from forcing developers to use the store's payment systems. It would also bar companies from punishing developers that offer lower prices on a separate app store or through their own payment systems. The bill would also make it unlawful for companies like Apple to use non-public data from their stores to build competing products against companies using their service.
by Makena Kelly
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