Apple is acting like a monopolist and bully says Congressman David Cicilline, Chairman of the House Antitrust Subcommittee.Cicilline joined The Vergecast along with Basecamp CTO David Heinemeier to discuss Apple's threat to remove the company's email app 'Hey' from the App Store. Apple is demanding the subscription app implement a way to sign up for the service in-app, giving the company a 30% cut of those signups.
“Because of the market power that Apple has, it is charging exorbitant rents — highway robbery, basically — bullying people to pay 30 percent or denying access to their market,” said Rep. Cicilline. “It’s crushing small developers who simply can’t survive with those kinds of payments. If there were real competition in this marketplace, this wouldn’t happen.”
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