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Sunday, February 28, 2021 Could a single state legislature topple both mobile app store monopolies? At least it could make a historical contribution. This is just my first post on legislative initiatives in multiple states concerning mobile app stores, so I've really just begun to research the topic and have a lot to learn. A couple of weeks ago, the North Dakota state senate voted against a bill that would have required Apple's App Store and the Google Play Store to allow app developers to use other payment in-app payment systems. The fact that the state legislature decided against it doesn'...

Minnesota Bill Attacks Apple and Google’s App Fees The bill would force Apple and Google to keep products from Minnesota developers in their app stores even if the developers use their own payment systems. The tech companies take a 30 percent commission on app purchases. Briana Bierschbach, Star Tribune   |   February 26, 2021   |  News (TNS) — The battle over Big Tech has made its way to Minnesota, where unlikely alliances are forming in the divided Legislature over a bill that's sparked intense opposition from Apple and Google. The ...

Minnesota bill targets Apple and Google's smartphone app fees The legislation is part of a new push in state legislatures to chip away at the power of Big Tech.  February 26, 2021 — 9:31am Text size Copy shortlink: The battle over Big Tech has made its way to Minnesota, where unlikely alliances are forming in the divided Legislature over a bill that has sparked intense opposition from Apple and Google. The proposal — quietly introduced last week — would force the two tech giants to keep the products of Minnesota developers in...

Friday, October 9, 2020 Bonny Sweeney suing Google on indie app developer's behalf--what's the connection between her and Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney? At times it feels there's not a day on which nothing happens in those app store antitrust cases. Yesterday, Microsoft threw its weight behind the Coalition for App Fairness (CAF) and Epic Games' complaints, but in a political sense and without joining the CAF or formally intervening in those lawsuits--and, by the way, Microsoft is reluctant to apply the goose-gander principle to the Xbox, at least for the time being. Then, today and Monday are t...

This Week in Apps: Sneak peek at TikTok shopping, new iOS and Android betas, kids’ app Prodigy hit with FTC complaint Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the weekly TechCrunch series that recaps the latest in mobile OS news, mobile applications and the overall app economy. The app industry is as hot as ever, with a record 218 billion downloads and $143 billion in global consumer spend in 2020. Consumers last year also spent 3.5 trillion minutes using apps on Android devices alone. And in the U.S., app usage surged ahead of the time spent watching live TV. Currently, the average Americ...