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Arizona voters overwhelmingly support App Fairness bill
This 'conclusions' from this poll don't have much validity. The response to the phrasing of its questions, the cherry-picking of issues, the lumping of all "Big Tech" together doesn't have much to do with the specific issue at hand and look to be constructed intentionally by the Coalition to garner a predetermined result so they could generate a press release to put pressure on lawmakers and try to paint themselves in a good light.AppleInsider said:
Data Orbital's survey questions appear to have concentrated solely on the topics of choice, and of big business.
"For background, this bill would prohibit the app payment monopoly by introducing competition that would allow you to choose how you pay for app purchases? [sic]," said the pollsters. "For example, Uber allows you to choose how you pay for your ride versus game and dating apps where the consumer is forced to only use Apple and Google's payment system which also give Apple and Google all the user's data and charge 30%."
The pollsters only told respondents about the 30% commission. They did not relay that developers that are paid less than $1 million per year qualify for a 15% app commission on the App Store, nor how subscriptions that go longer than a year have a 15% commission, versus a 30% commission for that first year.
The poll was sponsored by the Coalition for App Fairness, which has been campaigning against Apple and Google App Store practices since September 2020. The coalition also essentially wrote the legislation.
The Coalition for App Fairness is a consortium of more than 40 developers. It includes Epic Games -- which is currently preparing to go to trial with Apple and Google.
