Apple's app store is suddenly a flashpoint in the Big Tech debate, and government regulators could take action on year-long complaints about how the company runs its app store.
Thompson called Apple’s app store review “an absolute gatekeeper” and said “the number of ways that Apple can retaliate are so varied and hard to verify, that no one is willing to publicly breathe a word against the company.”event“Increasingly, you are seeing app stores that have created higher walls and more formidable gates to access to other applications than anything that existed in the industry 20 years ago,” Smith said. “The time has come, whether talking about D.C.
And the company was already a defendant in a proposed class-action lawsuit brought by consumers, also in Oakland federal court.
“If excessive pricing is an antitrust offense, courts and antitrust agencies will need to determine what is the proper price, which would turn them into price regulators of all markets, something they are not equipped to do,” Aviram wrote in an email.
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