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Open App Markets Act (www.congress.gov)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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The bill prohibits a covered company from (1) requiring developers to use an in-app payment system owned or controlled by the company as a condition of distribution or accessibility, (2) requiring that pricing or conditions of sale be equal to or more favorable on its app store than another app store, or (3) taking punitive action against a developer for using or offering different pricing terms or conditions of sale through another in-app payment system or on another app store.

A covered company may not interfere with legitimate business communications between developers and users, use non-public business information from a third-party app to compete with the app, or unreasonably prefer or rank its own apps (or those of its business partners) over other apps.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Not bad, but it seems like there's a big scary loophole that would hurt the app stores themselves there. Presumably you could just take your for-pay app and make it free except you have to unlock it immediately with a third party in-app payment system.

Not that I'm a huge simp for google or apple, but there is a line there, they deserve to be paid for their conventional apps if nothing else.