The Senate Judiciary Committee approved a bill Thursday aimed at tackling the dominance of major tech companies, particularly Apple and Google, in mobile app stores.
The Open App Markets Act, introduced in August 2021 by Republican Tennessee Sen. Marsha Blackburn and Democratic Sens. Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut and Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota, would prevent app stores such as Google Play and Apple’s App Store from requiring developers to use the tech giants’ in-app payment systems as a condition of distribution. This requirement, the bill’s authors argue, allows Apple and Google to collect large commissions on in-app payments, to the detriment of app developers.
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