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Title: Apple and Google Face Enforced Changes Over UK Smartphone Dominance

Link: https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/10/22/1812...

Google and Apple face enforced changes to how they operate their mobile phone
platforms, after the UK's competition watchdog ruled the companies require
tougher regulatory oversight. From a report: The Competition and Markets
Authority has conferred "strategic market status" (SMS) on the tech firms
after investigating their mobile operating systems, app stores and browsers.
It means Apple and Google will be subjected to tailormade guidelines to
regulate their behaviour in the mobile market. The CMA said the two companies
have "substantial, entrenched" market power, with UK mobile phone owners
using either Google or Apple's platforms and unlikely to switch between them.
The regulator flagged the importance of their platforms to the UK economy and
said they could be a bottleneck for businesses. [...] Changes under
consideration by the CMA include allowing users to be "steered" out of app
stores to make purchases elsewhere, like on a company's own website. App
developers have long taken issue with Apple and Google taking a cut from
purchases made via apps. The CMA also wants both companies to ensure users
have a "genuine choice" over the services they use on their devices, like
digital wallets on Apple.

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