To fight Apple and Google, smaller app rivals organise a coalition

Post author By New Zealand Blog News Service
Post date September 25, 2020

Spotify, Match Group, Epic Games and others have created a nonprofit alliance that they hope will amplify a protest against the power of the giants.

For months, complaints from tech companies against …

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