Meta and Spotify are teaming up to lobby against Apple and Google

Meta has joined forces with Spotify, Garmin, Match, and others to form a lobby group to represent their interests, especially as they come into conflict with those of Apple and Google. The group’s first order of business is arguing that age verification should be the responsibility of app stores, and not the apps themselves. Bloomberg reports that the Coalition for a Competitive Mobile Experience will fight for app makers’ interests on a range of fronts, including ensuring that Apple and Google products work well with rivals’ devices and software, fighting what’s perceived as discrimination from the App Store and Play Store, and aiding the Justice Department in its ongoing antitrust cases against Apple and Google. “What these founding companies share in common is they rely on the mobile ecosystem in order to serve their customers,” Brandon Kressin, the director of the coalition, told Bloomberg. “They each recognize there’s power in numbers, especially when going up against companies ... Read full article.