In particular, the Commission plans to investigate Google and Apple’s anti-steering rules in their app stores and whether Google is guilty of self-preferencing its own services within its search engine. Apple’s browser choice screen for iOS is also being investigated as well as Meta’s “pay or consent model” for ad targeting. In a press conference, the Commission said it plans to conclude the investigations in the next 12 months.
Additionally, the EU regulator is also looking into the fee structure Apple announced for distributing apps outside of the App Store, as well as whether Amazon is self-preferencing its own products on its store.
Scale is the thing that makes all of this a very different conversation. When you control half of the market, you can’t lock things down so hard. Apple’s choices with things like APIs and the App Store are directly hostile towards even the idea of competition, and have been for a long time. [...]
Similarly, Apple’s policies and choices arguably benefitted users in the earlier days, but as the company has grown and the iPhone has really dominated, especially the US market, those policies have started to become a hindrance.
Spotify’s UK users are getting access to a fourth category of content to sit alongside its existing library of songs, podcasts and audiobooks: online courses. The company is today launching a new experiment that’ll see video-based lessons from BBC Maestro, Skillshare, Thinkific, and PlayVirtuoso made available via Spotify’s apps on mobile and desktop.
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This is something that I don't quite understand: If it takes the EU Commission many months just to determine if the gatekeepers are complying, how on earth are the gatekeepers even expected to figure out if they themselves are complying?
Or is this whole DMA thing just to confuse everybody into giving in as much as possible just to avoid the fines?
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