Developers Alliance Submits Response To The Australian Competition & Consumer Commission’s Digital Platform Services Inquiry

The Developers Alliance submission highlights the dynamic and competitive history of digital markets since the inquiry’s inception.

Canberra, April 14th, 2022 – The Developers Alliance has announced that it submitted its response to the Australian Competition & Consumer Commission (ACCC) Digital Platform Services Inquiry Interim Report no. 5

The ACCC is considering whether there is a need for a new regulatory framework to address the competition and consumer concerns identified in digital platform services markets. This report is the fifth interim report for the Digital Platform Services Inquiry and marks the midpoint of the Inquiry, which began in 2020.

In their submission, the developer advocate highlights that the narrative that software developers are victims of a system that extorts their efforts is false.

Additionally, the group notes that even over the short life of the inquiry, the Digital Platform Services industry has demonstrated itself to be dynamic and competitive, that rigid regulation is counter-productive, that the industry is global and interconnected and undergoing a regulatory change in multiple markets simultaneously resulting in overlapping mandates.

“The ACCC must be open to reinterpreting past findings where the facts have changed over time,” stated Bruce Gustafson, Developers Alliance President, and CEO. “While the developer community would welcome internationally harmonized rules around platform transparency, content regulation, and privacy, the ongoing political focus on platform companies is unhelpful.”

The submission builds upon two past Alliance filings in the inquiry in 2020 and 2021.

The submission can be read here.

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By Bruce Gustafson

Bruce is the President and CEO of the Developers Alliance, the leading advocate for the global developer workforce and the companies that depend on them. Bruce is also the founder of the Loquitur Group, a DC consulting firm, and the former VP and head of the DC Policy office of Ericsson, a global information and communications technology company, focusing on IPR, privacy, IoT, spectrum, cybersecurity and the impact of technology and the digital economy. He has previously held senior leadership positions in marketing and communications at both Ericsson and Nortel, as well as senior roles in strategy and product management across wireless, optical and enterprise communication product portfolios.

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