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A group of Apple critics, including Spotify Technology SA, Match Group Inc, and “Fortnite” creator Epic Games, have joined a nonprofit group that plans to advocate for legal and regulatory action to challenge the App’s practices. Store of the iPhone manufacturer.
Apple charges a commission of between 15% and 30% for applications that use its in-app payment system and sets extensive rules for applications in its App Store, which is the only way Apple allows consumers to download native applications on devices such as the iPhone. Those practices have drawn criticism and formal legal complaints from some developers.
The Coalition for App Fairness, structured as a nonprofit based in Washington, DC and Brussels, said it plans to advocate for legal changes that would force Apple to change.
Beyond Epic, Match, and Spotify, other members include smaller firms such as Basecamp, Blix, Blockchain.com, Deezer, and Tile, along with developers from Europe, including the European Council of Publishers, News Media Europe, and Protonmail.
Epic is suing Apple over antitrust claims in a US federal court in California, while Spotify has filed an antitrust lawsuit against Apple in the European Union. Sarah Maxwell, a representative of the group, declined to comment on how much funds the Coalition for App Fairness has raised and from whom.
Apple declined to comment, but on Thursday unveiled a new section of its website that explains the benefits of its approach, saying it had blocked 150,000 apps last year for privacy violations. It says that App Store fees fund the creation of developer resources, such as 160,000 white papers and sample code to help developers build apps.
Mike Sax, founder of The App Association, a group sponsored by Apple, said in a statement that the “big brands of the new coalition do not speak for the thousands of app makers that are the foundation of the app economy.”
(Reporting by Stephen Nellis in San Francisco; Editing by Stephen Coates and Cynthia Osterman)
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