Could this be the thing that finally turns the tide against Apple’s App Store fees?

[Andy Meek]

• App makers like Spotify have blasted the Apple App Store fees and various practices of the store for a while now.
• Now, several of these app developers and longtime critics of Apple's App Store policies have banded together to form a nonprofit, the Coalition for App Fairness.
• The app makers involved also include Epic, Match, Tile, Deezer, and many others.

Popular app makers like Spotify and the developer behind Fortnite that have long railed against Apple's App Store fees have now taken their beef against the iPhone maker's practices to a new level.

Those longtime Apple critics like Spotify as well as Epic and Match Group have launched a nonprofit -- the Coalition for App Fairness -- that's meant to formalize their ongoing fight against Apple App Store practices, like the commission of between 15% and 30% that app makers are hit with for using the store's in-app payment setup. If you open the coalition's website, right at the top in big letters, viewers are greeted by the following pronouncement that attempts to spell out why the group was founded: "Every day, Apple taxes consumers & crushes innovation."

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