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Group Backed by Spotify, Deezer Praises DOJ’s Antitrust Lawsuit Against Apple
The Coalition for App Fairness, which represents Spotify, Deezer and others, praised the Department of Justice's antitrust lawsuit against Apple.
“[Apple] stifles competition and hurts American consumers and developers alike,” Rick VanMeter, executive director for The Coalition for App Fairness (CAF), said in a statement. “There’s global consensus that Apple’s abuses of its monopoly power have stifled innovation and threaten the digital economy,” Avery Gardiner, a lawyer and competition policy advocate for Spotify, wrote on X. Both CAF and Gardiner acknowledged the DOJ’s case will take time to have any impact, and they urged Congress to pass The Open App Markets Act, a bill Ek has lobbied for since it was introduced in August 2021.
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