Meta’s Muse opens to developers, becomes de facto platform bid

Muse topped App Store charts and Meta opened it to outside developers via a connector platform. Shopify added Shop Pay support, Stripe powers payments, while Amazon has blocked Muse from parts of its shopping site.

Why it matters. Retailers now face a binary choice Amazon already made, where blocking Muse risks ceding demand to rivals like Shopify that plug in early.

Signal from businessinsider.com · Alistair Barr · read the original.

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