Today's settlement reached by the FTC to address COPPA violations by the Emily's Girls series of mobile apps is a positive outcome for developers. The safety and privacy of children in the mobile marketplace is of paramount importance to app developers and we welcome the Commission's vigorous enforcement in this [...]
Today I wrote the FCC to express support for the AT&T-T-Mobile merger because it would greatly help app developers. The spectrum crunch is forcing carriers to throttle speeds for high data users. These are the kind of users that buy apps and contribute to the explosive growth in the apps [...]
[Crossposted at Huffington Post] The next time you download a mobile app, think about the company that produced it. If you guessed it came from a large, California-based company, you're likely wrong. Most mobile apps are actually created by small companies from all across the country. These are the findings [...]
The Supreme Court’s 7-2 decision today in Brown v. Entertainment Merchants Association struck down a California law that prohibited, in part, the sale of certain video games to minors. One of the most important aspects of this decision was the court’s recognition of media equality; electronic media receive the same [...]
ACT rejects the proposal by Cellular Telephone and Internet Association to rate smartphone apps and act as the apps regulator. Software developers have expressed loud and clear that they do not want an association with competing interests to regulate the applications ecosystem. Recently, government officials and trade associations have been [...]