To be fair the figures come from a poll made from the Coalition for App Fairness which is an industry group for app developers is pushing Congress to pass the Open App Markets Act, a bipartisan Senate bill that would block app stores from favouring their own in-house apps in searches, requiring developers to use their payment systems and preventing users from downloading apps from third-party stores.

Developers surveyed by the group complained about exorbitant fees charged by the largest app stores -- Apple charges a 30 per cent commission on app store sales -- and expressed how they'd had trouble getting their apps featured or accepted by app stores.

Only 13 per cent of app developers surveyed oppose the bill although the poll did not say why.

The poll, conducted by ClearPath Strategies, surveyed 190 app developers in 11 states between December 2021 and January 2022. The margin of error is plus or minus 7.11 percentage points.

Coalition for App Fairness spokesman Meghan DiMuzio said in a statement. "The evidence is clear -- app developers want the Open App Markets Act to pass so that they can have the opportunity to compete in a fair digital marketplace. For too long, developers have been harmed by gatekeepers' monopolistic practices, and consumers have suffered from less choice and innovation."