The North Dakota State Senate voted down a new bill today that aims to pave the way for the choice of third-party app stores and prevent Apple from requiring developers to force their use.
Purchasing apps through its App Store and in-app buying. According to the North Dakota State Government website, the SB2333 bill failed by 11 votes to 36 votes that is good news for Apple.
Apple’s chief privacy engineer Erik Neuenschwander made a statement against the bill last week, saying that the bill ‘may destroy the iPhone you know’ and requires that the iPhone be subjected to ‘violation of privacy, security, security and performance’ modify.
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North Dakota Senator Kyle Davison, who introduced the bill, stated that the bill aims to provide North Dakota app developers with a ‘level playing field’ and protect customers from major technologies such as Apple and Google.
The impact of ‘destructive and monopolistic fees’ levied by the company. The purpose of the bill is to prevent Apple from requiring developers to use digital application distribution platforms as an exclusive model for distributing digital products.
It will also prevent the company from requiring developers to use in-app purchases as an exclusive model for accepting user payments. Lobbyist Lacee Byork Anderson drafted the initial legislation with funding from the Coalition for App Fairness.
App Fair Alliance is a cooperative organization created by companies like Epic Games, Spotify, Basecamp, and Tile to emphasize the problems between developers and Apple.
It is backed by Basecamp co-founder David Heinemeier Hansson, who got into a legal dispute with Apple last year over the email application ‘HEY’. Heinemeier Hansson praised the bill and stated that the bill gave him hope that ‘technology monopoly will not rule the world forever.’
