Good News from the European Union to Apple and Microsoft

Recently the European Union, abbreviated as DMA Digital Markets Act had put it into effect. With this regulation, many technology giants were obliged to make regulations to allow other companies to enter the markets in which they were active. For example, Meta was forced to adjust various social media and messaging applications to be compatible with third-party applications. Likewise, Apple had to allow third-party services in the EU.

Today, there was a development that closely concerns both Apple and Microsoft. The European Union made a statement about some of the prominent services of both companies.

“They are not major subsidiaries of the company.”

Issuing a press release on the subject EU officials, “After a comprehensive evaluation of all arguments, taking into account the views of relevant stakeholders, and after hearing the Digital Markets Advisory Committee, the commission iMessage, Bing, Edge and Microsoft Publishing He decided that he did not qualify as a gatekeeper.” he said. Threshold gatekeeper is an expression used to describe people, institutions and organizations that control entrances and exits to a sector.

Commission, over a period of 5 months He had examined various services of different companies. In the first statement made in September, 22 services, including various services such as the Apple App Store, iOS operating system and Safari browser, were listed among the main business areas of technology giants. While iMessage, Bing and Edge are comfortable for now, let us remind you that a similar review process continues for iPadOS. Still, Apple is pushing cross-platform features on iPhones under pressure from Google. RCS messaging It is known that it will start supporting the feature.