App developers frustrated with Apple’s and Google’s ”unfair” walled-garden policies have a new champion. Meta and several other organizations have formed a coalition to challenge the ”duopoly” these two mobile platform giants have built. Initial efforts focus on age verification reform, but the alliance also plans to tackle several other restrictive policies maintained by both companies.
Meta, Spotify, Garmin, Match Group, and others have joined forces to form a lobbying partnership targeting the control Apple and Google exert over their mobile app ecosystems. Bloomberg notes that the Coalition for a Competitive Mobile Experience will focus on platform fairness, with its initial priority being a push to shift age verification responsibilities from apps to app stores.
Källa: Meta, Spotify, and others unite to challenge the Apple-Google app store duopoly
