The North Dakota state senate voted 36 to 11 against a bill today that would have opened up Apple and Google mobile app stores to alternative payment methods and eased restrictions on how users can download apps. It’s likely to be the first of a series of state bills aimed at watering down the control by the tech giants of their app stores. The bill would have prevented Apple and Google from...
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