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Cake day: July 7th, 2023

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  • The law allows local authorities to name “designated providers” of a certain scale – currently only achieved by Apple and Google – and require those providers to do three things:

    • Allow third-party app stores on their devices;
    • Allow application developers to use third-party billing services;
    • Enable users to change default settings with simple procedures, and offer choice screens for tools like browsers;

    And it forbids them doing three more:

    • Engage in any form of preferential treatment of their services over those of competitors in the display of search results without justifiable reason;
    • Use acquired data about competing applications for their own applications;
    • Prevent application developers from using features controlled by the OS with the same level of performance as the one used by Designated Providers.

    This… this is amazing