Open App Markets Act

The Open App Markets Act aims to promote competition in the app economy by prohibiting covered companies—those operating app stores with over 50 million U.S. monthly users and controlling the underlying operating system—from engaging in anti-competitive practices such as requiring use of their in-app payment systems, self-preferencing their own apps in search rankings, or restricting developers’ ability to communicate with users or use alternative payment systems. The bill also mandates interoperability, including allowing users to set third-party app stores as defaults and install apps outside the covered company’s store, while preserving exceptions for legitimate privacy, security, and…

No official summary is available here. This one was written by AI from the bill’s text.