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CMA gets commitments from Apple and Google to protect UK app developers

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The commitments will prevent discrimination against UK app developers on app stores. Photo: Cheng Xin/Getty Images.

Hameed Shuja

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Move “intended to deliver immediate improvements in certainty, transparency and fairness for thousands of UK businesses dependent on app stores.”

The UK’s competition watchdog is seeking views on a package of commitments it says it has secured from Apple and Google that will stop the two tech giants from discriminating against UK app developers on their online app stores.

The CMA said last week the measures will make sure that

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