Apple, Meta, and TikTok, have pushed back against their designations in an attempt to reduce the impact of the rules on platforms like the App Store and messaging services like Messenger and iMessage
Not a good look for Apple, Meta, and Tik Tok
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Google is testing changes to some of its most important services including Search, the Chrome browser, and its Android operating system ahead of the European Union’s tough new antitrust rules coming into force in March, the company has announced.
The changes come as a result of the bloc’s Digital Markets Act (DMA), a sweeping piece of legislation under which Google has been designated as a “gatekeeper” and given new rules for how it can operate important “core platform services.”
On Android, it’s introducing a new browser choice screen during initial device setup, similar to what it already offers to let users pick between different search engines.
The changes announced today appear designed to address the DMA’s rules about self-preferencing, under which gatekeepers are forbidden from treating their own services more favorably on their platforms than third-party rivals.
Several of these companies, including Apple, Meta, and TikTok, have pushed back against their designations in an attempt to reduce the impact of the rules on platforms like the App Store and messaging services like Messenger and iMessage.
“While we support many of the DMA’s ambitions around consumer choice and interoperability, the new rules involve difficult trade-offs,” legal director Oliver Bethell writes in the company’s blog post.
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The EU may not be perfect but they’re at least getting shit done.
Google Play Services and Google Play should be denominated to a normal, installable apps.
“Choose your web browser” should include “I’ll install different one myself”, as it also forces using Google Play for updates.
Webview should be installable.
Default messaging app should not have fixed links to Google’s proprietary RCS servers (btw, RCS should be just build in to base Android).
Isn’t that RCS comment a problem because the networks are just lazy shits and didn’t want RCS, so Google just went and covered for them?
Maybe Google done it because of that, not saying it was a bad thing, but there should be a choice.
Also a much personal opinion about the whole RCS thing, because I love to rant about it. A chat protocol that rely on phone operators to work is such obscure and obsolete idea overall in the age of phones with internet connection.
I just used Google Search for a maps query yesterday and it is somehow so much worse with the services decoupled. The maps button has been severely nerfed.
