Epic Games, Spotify, Others Form Coalition for App Fairness to Fight Back against Apple Crushing Innovation

Last month, when Apple had removed Fortnite from App Store, there were rumors that Epic Games is going to form a coalition against the Cupertino-based tech giant to fight its app commission and App Store policies. Well, the rumors were true. Epic Games along with Spotify, Tile, and ten other companies has formed a new organization called the “Coalition for App Fairness” with an effort to fight against the app commission that Apple charges to developers and a few policies of App Store.

The Coalition of App Fairness is based out of Washington DC and Brussels, and calls itself as “an independent non-profit organization founded by industry-leading companies to advocate for freedom of choice and fair competition across the app ecosystem.” The ten other companies in the organization are Basecamp, BLIX, Blockchain, Deezer, EPC, Matchgroup, News Media Europe, Prepear, ProtonMail, and SkyDemon, all of which have had some kind of clash with Apple regarding app commission and App Store policies.

According to the organization, “EVERY DAY, APPLE TAXES CONSUMERS & CRUSHES INNOVATION.” The Coalition for App Fairness claims to lead legal and regulatory changes against three key issues “anti-competitive policies,” “30 percent app tax,” and “no consumer freedom.” The organization has listed ten changes that they would like app distribution platforms to follow. Here they are.

The Coalition of App Fairness is trying to lure other developers to join the fight against Apple’s app commission and App Store policies saying that “together we will fight back against the monopolist control of the app ecosystem by Apple.”

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