Apple faces app store payments fight in Arizona, Throttlegate suit in Portugal

Apple is facing a fresh round of battles on both sides of the Atlantic over its App Store and iPhone policies. First up, Arizona lawmakers are considering a proposal that would allow developers to use third-party payment platforms for in-app purchases on Apple's App Store. If it passes, Apple and Google - along with other app …

[The Sprocket]

Naw . . . gave this a second thought after I signed in and realized—I don't give a toss anymore. These two horses are a bloody pulp.

[alain williams]

1 million is too large a number

The number of annual downloads to trigger them allowing an alternative should be much lower.

[Kevin Johnston]

Re: 1 million is too large a number

I can understand why you say that but I think they have pitched it very well. With over 7 million people in Arizona, setting a '1 million in a year' trigger would guarantee to catch Apple and Google while still soundign to be a high threshold. It also gives an easy number for the other states to bounce off when setting their trigger levels

[gnasher729]

TenCent is at it again. They same lobbying company that they used to buy a legislator in North Dakota now is paying someone in Arizona. This is no attempt to support small developers, or end users, it's an attempt to give Epic, mostly owned by $750 billion Chinese company TenCent, direct access to their customers' money from in-app purchases. Make the customer pay the maximum amount to enjoy a game.

[zuckzuckgo]

Sometimes the enemy of my enemy is my ally.