App stores must give prominence to SA developers: CompCom
– “limits the visibility of local app developers”, making it impossible for them to go toe to toe against “well-resourced” global competitors.
“Google and Apple must also provide a curation of South African apps on their app stores and advertising credits to South African app developers,” the commission said in its report.
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