… Under state law, operating systems and app stores must collect users’ ages during device setup starting January 1st, 2027. Open-source developers and users were left wondering how the law would be applied to them, or if it even could be. …
… Despite some significant differences in their P2P architecture, all these apps ultimately lost in court or folded ahead of a likely legal defeat. …
… Apple launched the iPhone in 2007 and the App Store in 2008, the same year as Android and what would become the Play Store. The app economy started to actually boom. …
… Deb Fischer R-NE , had built Grindr’s relationships with House Republicans to shape the App Store Accountability Act, which placed the responsibility for age verification requirements on the app stores rather than the apps themselves. …
… Epic Games brought Fortnite back to the US App Store last year following a legal win against Apple. …
… Are your creators still paying the Apple tax? Yes. I disagree with that decision. I think that’s bad for creative small businesses. I don’t think it’s creator-first. I told App Store employees at Apple that to their faces. …
… You’ve got to take your company, which approaches the retailers like Apple, and go into a company that approaches the retailers like Samsung, and then you’ve got a functional structure, and you’ve got to go into a very rigid process-oriented divisional structure. …