Coalition For A Competitive Mobile Experience
Who We Are
Our Mission
The Coalition for a Competitive Mobile Experience (CCME) is a diverse group of companies seeking to improve consumers’ experiences with their devices by making the space more open and competitive.
Our Focus
Americans rely on mobile devices every day. We support policies that empower consumers to take control of their smartphone experience, but the system is broken. Consumers deserve more freedom, lower costs, and access to a wider range of apps and services.
Executive Director
Brandon Kressin, a founding partner of Kressin Powers, has spent his entire career representing clients seeking to execute offensive antitrust strategies in a variety of industries.
Brandon has deep experience in all forms of antitrust practice, with much of his work centering on tech issues, where he is able to draw from a deep knowledge of how these highly complicated markets operate. For more than a decade he has represented clients dealing with anticompetitive conduct involving search, digital advertising, and mobile platforms. He is now working at the forefront of emerging antitrust issues involving artificial intelligence and Web3.
Through his firm, Brandon regularly advocates in favor of enforcement before federal, state, and foreign antitrust regulators. He regularly meets with and presents to staff and the front office at the US Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division and the Federal Trade Commission. He also travels around the country to meet with antitrust enforcers in the most active state attorney general offices, and he also appears before regulators in the EU and the UK.
Brandon also regularly works on the Hill and in state legislatures, educating policymakers on the competitive implications of proposed statutes, and he has publicly testified on a variety of competition-related bills.
What We Support
We support open competition and consumer choice across the smartphone ecosystem.
Some of the areas we are focused on include:
Consumer Harm & Degraded User Experience
Have you ever struggled to connect your non-Apple headphones to your iPhone? Has an update to your phone rendered your smartwatch useless? Companies like Apple throw up repeated roadblocks to make it more difficult for third-party hardware to connect, hurting consumers in a bid to push them toward their own products. Devices and technology from different manufacturers should work seamlessly.
Price Gouging & Market Rigging
The companies that own and operate app stores are blocking competitors, limiting choice and inflating costs for consumers. With its 30% fee on in-app purchases, Apple is heaping extra costs on users only to benefit its bottom line. Consumers are also deprived of choice and agency when developers aren’t allowed to make their own app stores available on devices. App store providers should promote competition and choice in the app economy through equal treatment of competing app stores on their operating systems.
Youth Safety
We support legislative solutions that empower parents and equip them with the tools to keep their own kids safe online. That means age verification and parental approval at the app store level. We don’t need to give the government the power to police content on the internet – we just need to give parents the tools to keep their own kids safe. The app stores already offer this parental approval service for parents who want it. It should simply be mandatory, and it should apply to all apps equally.
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