The Arizona House Commerce Committee is having a hearing tomorrow on a bill to offer software makers protection from app store payment processing extortion and retaliation. I'll be testifying remotely! This is like the ND bill, but without alternative app stores. Just payment. 
This is the kind of legislative momentum I only dared dream about when I testified before Congress a year ago. Everything seemed like such a long shot back then. No more. The pressure is mounting, change now looks way more likely than not 🙏 m.signalvnoise.com/testimony-befo…
The passage of this bill would simply be huge. As soon as its passed, we could start offer Arizona customers the path to sign up for @heyhey and @basecamp directly from the apps. Opening those doors that Apple and Google made us shut.
I'm really excited that @JeffWeninger and the rest of the committee is taking this up. It's exactly the kind of relief from big tech dominance people setting up a software maker business need from their state legislators. Let's have the next software success come from AZ ✌️❤️
Apple spent all their time in North Dakota arguing alternative app stores would "destroy iPhone as you know it", which of course is complete nonsense (didn't destroy Mac, didn't destroy Android). But this bill doesn't even have that! Just protection from extortion/retaliation.
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