Nine app developers break from Apple and Google to form new lobby groupThey are competing with ACT-The App Association, which counts Apple and Microsoft in its ranks.
What you need to know
Nine app developers have created a new lobby group independent of one backed by Apple and Google.
The group is called 'The App Coalition'.
Its purpose is to lobby Congress on the importance of apps as part of the economy.
Nine app developers have created a new lobbying group independent from Apple, Google, and Microsoft, as they seek to lobby congress on the importance of the app ecosystem to the economy.
As reported by Bloomberg:
Nine mobile app companies are launching a new trade group to weigh in on the nation's most controversial tech policy issues, banding together to assert their independence from Apple Inc. and Alphabet Inc.'s Google. Booking Holdings Inc.'s Priceline, OpenTable Inc. and Kayak, along with Perry Street Software, which operates dating applications, are among the founding members of the App Coalition. The group kicked off its operations ...
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Nine app developers break from Apple and Google to form new lobby group