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Apple and Google's Mobile Duopoly Likely To Face UK Antitrust Action

Tuesday December 14, 2021. 06:33 PM , from Slashdot/Apple
The U.K.'s antitrust watchdog has given the clearest signal yet that interventions under an upcoming reform of the country's competition rules will target tech giants Apple and Google -- including their duopolistic command of the mobile market, via iOS and Android; their respective app stores; and the browsers and services bundled with mobile devices running their OSes. From a report: So it could mean good news for third-party developers trying to get oxygen for alternatives to dominant Apple and Google apps and services down the line. Publishing the first part of a wide-ranging mobile ecosystem market study -- which was announced this summer -- the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) said today that it has 'provisionally' found Apple and Google have been able to leverage their market power to create 'largely self-contained ecosystems'; and that the degree of lock-in they wield is damaging competition by making it 'extremely difficult for any other firm to enter and compete meaningfully with a new system.' 'The CMA is concerned that this is leading to less competition and meaningful choice for customers,' the watchdog writes in a press release. 'People also appear to be missing out on the full benefit of innovative new products and services -- such as so-called 'web apps' and new ways to play games through cloud services on iOS devices.'

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https://tech.slashdot.org/story/21/12/14/1733245/apple-and-googles-mobile-duopoly-likely-to-face-uk-...
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