Grant developers the right to interoperate with large platforms without permission

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Cory Doctorow
Author and digital rights activist

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Thanks to copyright restrictions that criminalize modifying apps without permission, there is no legal way for either drivers or riders to build comparison-shopping dashboards that bid out the same worker or job to multiple apps and choose from the c...
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David Heinemeier Hansson
37signals CTO; Rails creator

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The App Store dispute can be boiled down to one big question: Is the iPhone a computer or not? If it’s a computer, we ought to have the right to compute. Like consumers have won the right to repair. If it’s a computer, it ought to be yours, and you o...
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Brad Smith
Microsoft vice chair and president

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But too much friction exists today between creators and gamers; app store policies and practices on mobile devices restrict what and how creators can offer games and what and how gamers can play them. Our large investment to acquire Activision Blizza...
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Mitch Stoltz
EFF IP Litigation Director

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Interoperability between the products and services of different firms promotes competition by lowering switching costs. Requiring dominant firms to make their products interoperable, or reducing barriers to interoperability, are important components ...
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Ethan Zuckerman
MIT scholar and public-interest technologist

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This work is technically possible, but it requires a very different regulatory environment than the one we currently have, one that mandates interoperability and protects adversarial interoperability, the ability to build a product that announces “I’...
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Competition and Markets Authority
UK competition regulator

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Under Theme 2, we have examined the extent to which Apple and Google, as owners of the main app stores in their respective ecosystems, have market power in the distribution of native apps. This includes the extent to which there are suitable alternat...
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Tim Sweeney
Epic Games CEO

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So, on an open platform like Android should be. And it was advertised as being… All stores should operate at parity. Right? Once you’ve decided to install another store like the Epic Games store, it should have equal access the system software, as Go...
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Mike Masnick
Techdirt founder and editor

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I know some people have compared your concept of "adversarial interoperability" with my concept of "protocols, not platforms," and I think that they come from similar places and are looking at similar goals, but there’s one element of the adversarial...
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Lawrence Lessig
Harvard Law professor

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She was able to do all the things she did because the technology is oblivious to whether she had permission to do what she did. The Internet was not built with permissions in mind. Free access was the rule. We can see the first by returning to the p...
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European Commission
EU's executive body

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Under Article 6(7) of the DMA, Apple must provide developers and businesses with free and effective interoperability with hardware and software features controlled by its operating systems iOS and iPadOS. The objective of Article 6(7) DMA is that de...
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Epic Games
Video game and engine company

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Apple demanded that Epic revert Fortnite to exclusively use Apple payments. Their proposal was an invitation for Epic to collude with Apple to maintain its monopoly over in-app payments on iOS, suppressing free market competition and inflating prices...
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Brewster Kahle
Internet Archive founder; digital librarian

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But the Web is fun. The Web is so easy to use and inviting that millions of people are putting interesting things online; in many ways pouring a digital representation of their lives into the Web. New features are being invented and added into the te...
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Mikołaj Barczentewicz
Senior scholar of innovation policy

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Before the DMA’s enactment, I raised serious concerns about how its rules would affect user privacy and security, as I argued that mandated interoperability is a key concern that poses significant risks for users. I also noted that mandating an optio...
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Tim Cook
CEO of Apple

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Here in Washington and elsewhere, policymakers are taking steps, in the name of competition, that would force Apple to let apps onto iPhone that circumvent the App Store through a process called sideloading. That means data-hungry companies would be ...
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Adam Thierer
R Street Institute senior fellow

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votes Against and says:

I’m in league with Doctorow and EFF on some of these things, but also find myself thinking they go much too far in other ways. At root, their work and advocacy raise a profound question: should there be any general right to exclude on digital platfor...
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Moxie Marlinspike
Signal founder and cryptography researcher

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One of the controversial things we did with Signal early on was to build it as an unfederated service. Nothing about any of the protocols we’ve developed requires centralization; it’s entirely possible to build a federated Signal Protocol‑based messe...
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Facebook
social networking company

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If you use Social Plugins, Facebook SDKs, or operate a Platform app or website, you must follow our Statement of Rights and Responsibilities and these additional rules unless you have our written permission to do otherwise. [...] You may not use Face...
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Craig Federighi
Apple SVP of Software Engineering

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votes Against and says:

[...] Pandora’s box of unreviewed, malware-ridden software and deny everyone the option of iPhone’s secure approach. [...] Sideloading is a cybercriminal’s best friend. And requiring that on iPhone would be a gold rush for the malware industry.
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Geoffrey A. Manne
ICLE president and founder

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votes Against and says:

But it isn’t (or shouldn’t be) about private contracts. Just about all human (commercial) activity requires interaction with others, and that means contracts and licenses. You don’t see anyone complaining about the “permission” required to rent space...
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