The Digital Markets Act (DMA) establishes a set of clearly defined objective criteria to identify “gatekeepers”. Gatekeepers are large digital platforms providing so called core platform services, such as for example online search engines, app stores, messenger services.
Oh, that makes a lot of sense, thanks a bunch! I'll give the article a read
Apple, Microsoft .... are so called "Gatekeeper" they are at such a certain size, that if they go full ANTI consumer, or literally ban everyone else than themselves of their platform. It could lead to a monopoly or other worse case scenarios.
Its especially Apple, because its commonly known to restrict, force you into their eco-system, did multiple EEE attacks on some messaging apps, made some experience with third party apps/hardware unbearable worse. ( Its not just them, but everyone named in the Gatekeeper document by the EU )
In your example, a router, is just "a" router doesnt need to be a apple router, you can decide. It would be a different case if 1 router brand would dominate 50%+ of the router market and dictate what it costs, what the ui is etc....
In the end if a small company does something closed of thing, no one cares about it, because there are 1000000 alternatives, but if you are on apple or microsoft there arent anymore 100 alternatives rather just 2 or 3 ( but those do the same things ).
Yeah, I 100% agree!
I've been missing this piece of info, so that also means that any company that ends up becoming a new "gatekeeper" will be subject to the same regulations, right?
Like you can see in @[email protected] great illustration, if the eu finds a new gatekeeper they need to declare it, so no IT corporation gets immediatly the gatekeeper treatment after a specific treshold, if the corporations already let people do those things the DMA requires them to do, the DMA wouldnt exist. But back to the point, i think no one can really disrupt, or "takeover" on of the current gatekeepers, main role. So i dont think any new coorperation will be added to it soo.
I see!
no one can really disrupt, or "takeover" on of the current gatekeepers
True that, though I wouldn't rule it out completely after the sudden boom that ByteDance had with TikTok
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