Washington, D.C. — The American Economic Liberties Project issued the following statement in response to Judge Gonzalez-Rogers’ ruling in the Epic v. Apple antitrust suit.

“Judge Gonzalez-Rogers’ decision finds what has long been obvious: Apple abuses its app store dominance to harm entrepreneurs and independent businesses like Epic. That’s why eight state legislatures and both houses of Congress have proposed legislation to arrest Apple and Google’s gatekeeping power over app distribution,” said Matt Stoller, Director of Research at the American Economic Liberties Project. “By forcing Apple to abandon its anti-steering restrictions on developers, this decision will provide some immediate relief and help to create a fairer economy. It should be coupled with legislation like the Open App Markets Act that will ensure access to markets for American entrepreneurs and innovators.”

To learn more about app store monopolies, read more from Matt Stoller and Pat Garofalo in The New York Times here.

Learn more about Economic Liberties here. 

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The American Economic Liberties Project works to ensure America’s system of commerce is structured to advance, rather than undermine, economic liberty, fair commerce, and a secure, inclusive democracy. Economic Liberties believes true economic liberty means entrepreneurs and businesses large and small succeed on the merits of their ideas and hard work; commerce empowers consumers, workers, farmers, and engineers instead of subjecting them to discrimination and abuse from financiers and monopolists; foreign trade arrangements support domestic security and democracy; and wealth is broadly distributed to support equitable political power.