The App Association (ACT) brands itself as the leading voice for thousands of app developers around the world including Apple, Cisco, Microsoft, Intel and others. The association covers issues such as All Things FRAND , Antitrust issues, issues that are important industry issues and particularly to Apple. A group of ex-ACT employees falsely claim that Apple .
An economist from a U.S. think tank has raised an issue with the Korean government s move to impose sanctions on Apple and Google for allegedly compelling the use of their own in-app payment systems. Michael Mandel, vice president and chief economist of the Progressive Policy Institute (PPI) which was described by the Washington Post as a “centrist Democratic institute,” suggested Korean regulators pay careful attention to the security and privacy needs of consumers when making decisions on the sanctions against the two U.S. app store operators.