Stefan Mileschin

84 per cent support anti-trust bill

About 84 per cent of app developers support an antitrust bill aimed at curtailing the market power of Apple's and Google's app stores.

To be fair the figures come from a poll made from the Coalition for App Fairness which is an industry group for app developers is pushing Congress to pass the Open App Markets Act, a bipartisan Senate bill that would block app stores from favouring their own in-house apps in searches, requiring developers to use their payment systems and preventing users from downloading apps from third-party stores.

Developers surveyed by the group complained about exorbitant fees charged by the largest app stores -- Apple charges a 30 per cent commission on app store sales -- and expressed how they'd had trouble getting their apps featured or accepted by app stores.

Only 13 per cent of app developers surveyed oppose the bill although the poll did not say why.

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