Apple Plans to Skip App Store Hearing, Drawing Ire From Senators

Tim Cook speaks via videoconference during a House Judiciary Subcommittee in July, 2020.

Photographer: Graeme Jennings/Washington Examiner/Bloomberg

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Apple Inc. is refusing to participate in an upcoming Senate hearing about anti-competitive practices at online app stores, according to a letter addressed to Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook from Democrat Amy Klobuchar and Mike Lee, a Republican.

The letter says the Cupertino, California-based company declined to send a witness for an upcoming hearing of the Senate Judiciary Committee’s antitrust panel to examine allegations of anticompetitive treatment of outside app developers.