{"id":32349,"date":"2021-03-03T17:34:17","date_gmt":"2021-03-04T01:34:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=32349"},"modified":"2021-03-03T17:34:17","modified_gmt":"2021-03-04T01:34:17","slug":"a-win-for-apps-in-arizona","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=32349","title":{"rendered":"A WIN FOR APPS IN ARIZONA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An Arizona bill that would allow app developers to bypass fees from the Apple and Google stores advanced Wednesday in the state House.<\/p>\n<p>The bill, introduced by Republican state Rep. Regina Cobb, passed in a tight 31-29 vote.<\/p>\n<p>The bill would bar the app stores from requiring in-app payment as the only mode of accepting payment from users.<\/p>\n<p>Google and Apple\u2019s terms allow the companies to collect 15 to 30 percent of app revenue. If the bill were to pass in the Senate and be signed into law by Arizona Gov.\u00a0Doug Ducey\u00a0(R) it could greatly impact the tech giants\u2019 ability to collect funds from in-app purchases and sales.<\/p>\n<p>Apple had pushed back on the bill, with the company\u2019s chief compliance officer Kyle Andeer testifying at a state House hearing that the bill would serve as \u201ca government mandate that Apple give away the App Store.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Arizona bill that would allow&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32349"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32350,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32349\/revisions\/32350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}