Today, the Commission has opened non-compliance investigations under the Digital Markets Act (DMA) into Alphabet’s rules on steering in Google Play and self-preferencing on Google Search, Apple’s rules on steering in the App Store and the choice screen for Safari and Meta’s “pay or consent model”.
The Commission suspects that the measures put in place by these gatekeepers fall short of effective compliance of their obligations under the DMA.
In addition, the Commission has launched investigatory steps relating to Apple’s new fee structure for alternative app stores and Amazon’s ranking practices on its marketplace. Finally, the Commission has ordered gatekeepers to retain certain documents to monitor the effective implementation and compliance with their obligations.
Google suffered one of its biggest setbacks on Wednesday when a top European court fined it 4.125 billion euros ($4.13 billion) for using its Android mobile operating system to thwart rivals, offering a precedent for other regulators to ratchet up pressure.
Pretty cool. Now do it again! :) also this time its up to 30bil which will be much harder to sell to their investors. Next time its upnto 60bil. I really like this new law.
This is what happens when the EU decides that your phone should be more open and you get around it with cleaver lawyers and tactics instead of actually doing what’s right.
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Ten whole percent of global revenues in fines. Let’s go
I really hope they get slapped with some of the proposed fines. I will literally throw a party if thats the case.
Google already got hit a few years back.
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Pretty cool. Now do it again! :) also this time its up to 30bil which will be much harder to sell to their investors. Next time its upnto 60bil. I really like this new law.
This is what happens when the EU decides that your phone should be more open and you get around it with cleaver lawyers and tactics instead of actually doing what’s right.
Let’s hope they both get the fine and are forced to make the changes afterwards.
They really do deserve it, and the money could be used somewhere else.