Meta has allied with Spotify, Garmin, and Match to form the Coalition for a Competitive Mobile Experience, aiming to defend app makers' interests against Apple and Google. This coalition's initial focus is on age verification responsibility, advocating for app stores to manage this instead of individual apps. Additionally, they plan to influence antitrust cases and ensure compatibility between rival products. With legislation supporting app store age verification already emerging, the coalition seeks wider adoption of such laws to protect child users.
"What these founding companies share in common is they rely on the mobile ecosystem in order to serve their customers. They each recognize there's power in numbers, especially when going up against companies as powerful as the duopoly."
"Right now, the group's priority is joining Meta's ongoing efforts to persuade lawmakers that app stores should bear the responsibility for controlling which apps children can download, saving the apps themselves from the brunt of age verification."
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