Epic Games, Spotify, And Other Developers Form A Coalition To Take On Apple

A slew of companies and app makers have joined together to form the Coalition for App Fairness, aiming to fight Apple and its rules on App Store.

Among the founding members are Epic Games, Spotify, and Match Group, with the former two making headlines recently for their bad blood with Apple.

In a release, Spotify’s head of global affair Horacio Gutierrez said amid the investigation into Apple’s anti-competitive practice of legislators, enforcers, and regulators, the coalition would serve as the voice of game and app developers for a level playing field.

The Coalition for App Fairness is set up when Apple and Epic Games are in a lawsuit after Apple pulled Fortnite from App Store for trying to circumvent its 30% cut. Shortly after that, the game was also removed from Google Play Store for the same reason. Epic fought back by filing a lawsuit against both companies.

Earlier this month, Apple upped the game by requesting monetary damages if it successfully convinces a judge that it has the right to cut Fortnite’s chance to be downloaded and updated on 1.5 billion iPads and iPhones.

The iPhone maker has said nothing regarding the coalition. It only published a long article on its website talking about what App Store can bring to developers and users.

The site said App Store helped developers with everything they need, from building, testing, to marketing.

The Coalition for App Fairness has released 10 App Store Principles that it said could help to protect the app economy and make sure that everyone was benefited from digital technologies.

Here are the founding members of the coalition: Epic Games, Spotify, Match Group, Basecamp, News Media Europe, Blockchain.com, Tile, Prepear, Deezer, Protonmail, Blix, SkyDemon, and the European Publishers Council.

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