A bill targeting Apple and Google’s app store restrictions has . The Senate Judiciary Committee voted 20-2 to advance the , with only Sens. John Cornyn and Thom Tillis opposing. The vote showed once again that there’s bipartisan support for the bill.
Should the legislation become law , it would prevent app marketplace owners with more than 50 million users in the US from locking third-party developers into their payment systems. The App Store and Google Play Store, which require third-party apps to use their respective payment systems, pass that threshold.
They wouldn’t be able to block or punish developers from offering apps at other prices on different platforms, and they’d have to let developers contact their users with “legitimate business offers, such as pricing terms and product or service offerings.” Another provision would force Apple and Google to let users install…
