North Dakota state Senate blocks bill that would have required app stores to allow devs to use their own payment systems; Epic lobbied in favor of the bill
- The North Dakota state senate voted 36-11 on Tuesday not to pass a bill that would have required app stores to enable software developers …
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Discussion
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@jacknicas
Jack Nicas
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Breaking: The North Dakota senate just voted down the bill that would've banned Apple and Google from taking a cut of app sales from firms in the state. Arizona and Georgia are considering similar bills, which are attracting intense lobbying on all sides. https://www.nytimes.com/…
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@timsweeneyepic
Tim Sweeney
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North Dakota's effort to combat app store monopolies is awesome for consumers and developers. The Coalition for App Fairness organized the outreach, lobbying, and developer participation. Can't take credit for it, but Epic is proud to be a part of it! https://appleinsider.com/...
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@jny
Josh Young
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I've long thought that there's a neoliberal efficient markets-type argument to be made that Apple shouldn't take a cut of app revenue because having more apps enables it to sell more phones https://twitter.com/...
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@rsgnl
Joe Rossignol
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@dhh You think Apple is behind those comments? Is that legal?
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@timsweeneyepic
Tim Sweeney
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There's some strange stuff in today's articles. Guesswork presented as facts. Engadget with the subtitle “The bill opens the possibility of circumventing trusted payment methods”? Like Visa, Paypal and Stripe are untrusted without Apple gatekeeping? https://www.engadget.com/...
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@jacknicas
Jack Nicas
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The vote in North Dakota was 36 senators against the bill, 11 for it. Arizona, Georgia and Massachusetts are now considering similar legislation, which is being pushed by Epic Games and its group, @appfairness: https://www.nytimes.com/...
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@kifleswing
Kif
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State senators avoided saying “Apple.” One said, instead, think of “the same fruit Adam and Eve were not asked to eat”
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@hoeglaw
Richard Hoeg
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“While it might look self-serving for Epic to be behind the legislation, the US government has been looking into big tech monopolies for a while.” That's...not a counter to “it might look self-serving”, Kotaku. It *is* self-serving, the question is whether one cares. https://twit…
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@dhh
@dhh
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@rsgnl No, I think that dozens of Very Concerned Citizens just showed up to voice their Legitimate Concerns about state v FTC jurisdiction distinctions in a bill that could start the snowball where Apple ends up losing billions in extortion fees. Totally 😂🤣 https://www.vice.com/.…
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@keleftheriou
Kosta Eleftheriou
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My two favorite objections to this bill. People have no idea how totally fake App Store star ratings can be, or how easily scammers buy them in bulk every day. https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
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@dhh
@dhh
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Apple's lobbyists must have studied the playbook of the fake reviews on their own platforms. The “public” commentary on the Arizona bill to grant devs protection from App Store extortion/retaliation is 🤯. These identical comments just go on for days. https://apps.azleg.gov/... ht…
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@adamkovac
Adam Kovacevich
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Update: ND Legislature punted on the bill. Once the battle was fully joined, they likely realized Epic's state lobbyist undersold how big a fight this would be. ND has little reason to pick sides in a company vs. company dispute. https://twitter.com/...
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@nytimestech
@nytimestech
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A North Dakota bill that an Apple executive had warned “threatens to destroy iPhone as you know it” died in a vote on Tuesday. https://www.nytimes.com/...
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@dhh
@dhh
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Shame about North Dakota, but fantastic this bill got up for a vote, and that the snowball is rolling for similar legislation in multiple other states. It's not easy going first. And Apple and Google have infinite lobbying budgets to scare legislators with. But someone will dare.…
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@shiraovide
Shira Ovide
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In today's On Tech: The tale of tech is repeated versions of: “Oh, wow, what should we do about this thing that we left alone until it got giant?” I talked with @dmccabe about why governments from Warsaw to Bismarck are rethinking the rules for tech. https://www.nytimes.com/...