( August 21, 2026, 06:11 GMT | Official Statement) -- MLex Summary: The Coalition for App Fairness submitted a letter to Japan’s competition regulator on Friday, criticizing Apple and Google for what it sees as the lack of compliance with Japan’s Mobile Software Competition Act., also known as the smartphone law. The app developers’ group said the two companies’ compliance reports, published in July, demonstrate their unwillingness to give up their ability to extract “rents” rather than compete. Pointing to developments in the US, Europe and the UK, the group warned that “the current state of non-compliance could leave Japan as an outlier in permitting these monopolistic platforms to extract unfair and discriminatory rents from developers and consumers,” and called on the Japan Fair Trade Commission to take formal enforcement action.The statement is attached. ...
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