{"id":48249,"date":"2025-06-26T15:27:28","date_gmt":"2025-06-26T19:27:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=48249"},"modified":"2025-06-26T15:27:28","modified_gmt":"2025-06-26T19:27:28","slug":"open-app-markets-act-reintroduced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/26\/open-app-markets-act-reintroduced\/","title":{"rendered":"Open App Markets Act Reintroduced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2025\/06\/25\/senators-reintroduce-app-store-bill-to-rein-in-gatekeeper-power-in-the-app-economy\/\">Marcus Mendes<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2025\/06\/25\/senators-reintroduce-app-store-bill-to-rein-in-gatekeeper-power-in-the-app-economy\/\"><p>A bipartisan group of senators has reintroduced the 2021 Open App Markets Act, a bill aimed at curbing the gatekeeper power that Apple and Google hold over the so-called &ldquo;mobile app economy.&rdquo; Here&rsquo;s what they&rsquo;re going for.<\/p><p>If passed, the legislation would effectively force Apple and Google (who are not specifically named in the text) to allow sideloading, support third-party app stores, permit alternate payment systems, and stop penalizing developers for telling users about better prices elsewhere.<\/p><p>The bill&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blackburn.senate.gov\/2025\/6\/technology\/blackburn-blumenthal-lee-klobuchar-and-durbin-introduce-bipartisan-antitrust-bill-to-promote-app-store-competition\">reintroduction<\/a> was made by U.S. Senators Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), Mike Lee (R-Utah), Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.), and Dick Durbin (D-Ill.).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/20\/american-innovation-and-choice-online-and-open-markets-acts\/\">&ldquo;American Innovation and Choice Online&rdquo; and &ldquo;Open Markets&rdquo; Acts<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/25\/open-app-markets-act\/\">Open App Markets Act<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marcus Mendes: A bipartisan group of senators has reintroduced the 2021 Open App Markets Act, a bill aimed at curbing the gatekeeper power that Apple and Google hold over the so-called &ldquo;mobile app economy.&rdquo; Here&rsquo;s what they&rsquo;re going for.If passed, the legislation would effectively force Apple and Google (who are not specifically named in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2025-06-26T19:27:32Z","apple_news_api_id":"7b2e68fc-967e-4dcc-985e-1954fb908213","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2025-06-26T19:27:32Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/Aey5o_JZ-TcyYXhlU-5CCEw","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[248,2085,91,38,784,522,31,2586,209,2132],"class_list":["post-48249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-android","tag-antitrust","tag-appstore","tag-apple","tag-google-play-store","tag-inapppurchase","tag-ios","tag-ios-18","tag-legal","tag-sideloading"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48249"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48250,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48249\/revisions\/48250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}