Illinois latest state to try and legislate against Apple`s App Store
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It`s not the first state to try and legislate against Apple... What you need to know Illinois is trying to legislate against Apple`s App Store. The new Freedom to Subscribe Directly act wants to rewrite Apple and Google`s ecosystem. Specifically, it wants to ban requirements that developers use their own in-app payment methods. A new Illinois bill called the Freedom to Subscribe Directly App wants to put an end to Apple and Google`s requirement that developers must use platforms` own in-app payment methods. The new bill was filed Tuesday and states: Creates the Freedom to Subscribe Directly Act. Provides that a provider of a digital application distribution platform for which cumulative downloads of software applications from the digital application distribution platform to Illinois users exceed 1,000,000 downloads in the previous or current calendar year may not: (i) require a software application developer that is domiciled in the State to use a particular in-applicatio...