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Digital Markets Act: Commission designates six gatekeepers (ec.europa.eu)

submitted 1 year ago by stopthatgirl7@kbin.social to c/technology@lemmy.world

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The European Commission has today designated, for the first time, six gatekeepers - Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, ByteDance, Meta, Microsoft - under the Digital Markets Act (DMA). In total, 22 core platform services provided by gatekeepers have been designated. The six gatekeepers will now have six months to ensure full compliance with the DMA obligations for each of their designated core platform services.

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[–] randomaccount43543@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] tony@lemmy.hoyle.me.uk 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So apple got away with imessage then..

[–] NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

M$ got away with Edge...

[–] Vigge93@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

From the article

In parallel, the Commission has opened four market investigations to further assess Microsoft's and Apple's submissions arguing that, despite meeting the thresholds, some of their core platform services do not qualify as gateways:

Microsoft: Bing, Edge and Microsoft Advertising Apple: iMessage

Under the DMA, these investigations aim to ascertain whether a sufficiently substantiated rebuttal presented by the companies, demonstrate that services in question should not be designated. The investigation should be completed within a maximum of 5 months.

[–] neshura@bookwormstory.social 1 points 1 year ago

I think the problem with M$ and especially Apple is that since their OSes are very popular their default Apps have a high install base. But since few people actually use them they don't have the corresponding monthly active users. iMessage for example only serves as the SMS client for most people to receive stuff like shipping notifications or OTPs. I don't think that will be enough to get them out of being designated Gatekeepers but it explains why their services are not yet decided on.