Advocates Urge Support for Illinois App Store Bill

Illinois legislators should support a bill that prohibits app store owners from forcing developers to use exclusive in-app payment systems for collecting user payments, advocates wrote Wednesday. Introduced in March by Democratic Sens. Sara Feigenholtz and Robert Peters, SB-2311 would “protect small businesses, entrepreneurs, and consumers from the harmful gatekeeping powers of large app distributers like Apple’s App Store and Google’s Play Store,” wrote the American Economic Liberties Project, Fight Corporate Monopolies, Color of Change, Fight for the Future, Illinois PIRG, Progressive Change Campaign Committee and Public Citizen. Apple and Google didn’t comment.