This week’s podcast guest is Gene Burros, global policy council for the Coalition for App Fairness (CAF). Burros discusses how Apple and Google use their dominant position in the app store market to unfairly treat app developers and the legal battle taking place over this.
Burros joined CAF – a group of app developers advocating for a competitive and fair marketplace – after his work at Spotify (a CAF member) introduced him to the complex struggle between app stores and apps.
CAF contains members from early-stage startups to global powerhouses, including Fortnite developer Epic Games.
Burros explains the various legal challenges made against Apple and Google and the progress from global competition regulators in breaking up the app store monopoly, described by Burros as being akin to Microsoft’s domination of the software market in the 90s before anti-trust lawsuits came into place.
Listen to the full episode here, along with all previous episodes of the UKTN Podcast.
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