Tech giant, Apple will be attending the upcoming Senate antitrust hearing in the United States, as confirmed by the office of Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN).
The previous week, Senators Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) and Mike Lee (R-UT) placed a public strain on the firm to attend the hearing, which will be held by the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee based on the Competition Policy, Antitrust, and Consumer Rights. Klobuchar leads that subcommittee and has shifted her focus towards antitrust issues concerning the tech business’s most dominant gamers. The hearing will be also attended by Google, as the hearing will be delving into Apple’s and Google’s influence over “the cost, distribution, and availability of mobile applications on consumers, app developers, and competition.”
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App stores are considered to be one of the corners of tech that seems to be more likely a duopoly, an understanding that Apple’s high-profile clash with Fortnite-maker Epic is only advancing. Meanwhile, with a number of state-level tech administration efforts brewing, Arizona is planning to dismiss developers from Apple and Google’s massive cut of app store profits.
“Apple’s sudden change in course to refuse to supply a witness to testify earlier than the Subcommittee on app retailer competitors’ points in April, when the corporate is clearly keen to debate them in different public boards, is unacceptable,” the lawmakers wrote.
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Moreover, Klobuchar mentioned in a statement that the hearing will explore whether Apple and Google are exercising their power as watchmen to charge high fees and inflict limitations that stifle competition in mobile applications and similar markets, therefore, the participation of both the companies have been made compulsory. She further added that this notion is strongly opposed because these tech giants have the power to control how and if mobile app developers can reach app users, and eventually, which app becomes successful.
Source: TechCrunch
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