Full list of gatekeepers’ core platform services that must comply with the Digital Markets Act:
- Social Networks: TikTok, Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn
- N-IICS (aka messaging services): WhatsApp, Messenger
- Intermediation: Google Maps, Google Play, Google Shopping, Amazon Marketplace, Apple’s App Store, Meta Marketplace
- Video Sharing: YouTube
- Advertising services: Google, Amazon, Meta
- Web Browsers: Chrome, Safari
- Search: Google Search
- Operating Systems: Android, iOS, Windows
Thats all good news! When can we expect changes to come?
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They allow it on Mac because Mac predates the locked down experience they created on the iPhone. I’m sure Apple love having it so that you can only install Mac apps from the app store, but users have been able to install their own software for 30 years and know it would be bad if they took that away.
Fuck that.
All I need is some tracking app that’s required by my company for communication, harvesting intel off my phone. I try to keep it lean and curated - I don’t need some wild-west version of the app store where there’s no boundaries.
You want all that? Go Android.
Just don’t install it ffs.
It’s like being mad I can buy a movie you don’t like. You live your own life.
They said it couldn’t be done but it’s slowly finally happening, let’s go
Good. Let’s start to get some real competition and innovation going on in these spaces.