Uh oh. Apple, Meta and Google could be in hot water in Europe over their attempts to stand within the letter, if not exactly the spirit, of the bloc’s sweeping new Digital Markets Act (DMA).
Core to the probe are concerns Google parent Alphabet and Apple have not given sufficiently allowed “app developers to “steer” consumers to offers outside the gatekeepers’ app stores, free of charge,” according to the European Commission (the European Union’s executive arm). As things currently stand, the new rules from these tech companies may “constrain … developers’ ability to freely communicate and promote offers and directly
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