Small Business Week is an opportunity to celebrate our small business members and their impact on their local communities and the app economy at large. Our small business members are the backbone of innovation, driving solutions that power how we live, work, and play through safe, secure, connected technology. We’re [...]
Policymakers at all levels across the globe are focused on how competition policy interacts with—or should interact with—modern digital markets, characterized by the entry of large platform marketplaces of digital goods and services. As legislators and enforcement agency officials debate the applicability of antitrust (or competition) law to digital platforms, [...]
By Nancy View|2022-05-04T10:18:46-04:00May 4th, 2022|Blog|
S. 2710 seeks to undo the current management structure for mobile app stores. The provisions track some of the complaints from the largest companies selling digital-only goods and services on the app stores, which have an ultimate purpose of forcing app stores to distribute their products for free. As a [...]
S. 2992 seeks to undo the current management structures of large, privately managed marketplaces, including software platforms (app store / operating system combinations). The provisions seek to limit actions large platforms take that would advantage their own offerings or disadvantage other offerings. The central provisions of S. 2992 require open [...]
As lawmakers continue to consider measures that would restrict the ability of app platforms to manage their ecosystems, ACT | The App Association remains concerned that such limitations would massively reduce marketplace trust. For many small app developers within our membership, this threat is existential - without possessing a well-known [...]
