Blockchain.com Joins Coalition for App Fairness

The cryptocurrency wallet provider Blockchain.com has joined the list of initiators of a campaign against Apple. Its participants demand that the tech giant revoke the App Store’s 30% commission and allow iOS to download apps from sources other than the App Store.

A group of companies formally joined together to lobby against Apple’s developer policies on iOS. Most interesting member is cooking app Prepear.

Maybe Apple shouldn’t have tried to kill Prepear’s trademark because they both use fruits…https://t.co/EZB4fw6R9Q pic.twitter.com/o4RHwbcwFK

— Mark Gray (@emtgray) September 24, 2020

The Coalition for App Fairness has united such companies as Epic Games, Spotify, Match Group, News Media Europe, Basecamp, Blix, Tile, Deezer, SkyDemon, ProtonMail, Prepair and others.

Its members welcome any mobile app developers who seek to preserve consumer choice and a level playing field for doing business. The coalition’s founders are convinced that Apple is abusing its control of iOS to promote its own services.

The manifesto’s authors urged the largest app-store operators to transform their policies so that they reflect ten principles. Among them:

• open up other distribution options for apps, including using other payment systems;
• eliminate blocks and discrimination against developers based on business models or due to competition with the app store owner;
• repeal ‘unfair, unreasonable, or discriminatory charges’;
• provide access to the same technical information that the platform owner has.

Earlier in September, due to Apple’s refusal to host decentralised apps in the App Store, Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong also criticised Apple.

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