Google and Apple are having a bad day. The tech giants are facing a new investigation into their mobile ecosystems from the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) and growing pressure to adopt a new app store initiative in India.
Let’s start with the probe, which comes one day after the CMA named a former Amazon executive as its interim chair. The CMA is investigating whether Apple and Google’s mobile ecosystems should have Strategic Market Status (SMS) and thus can be subjected to greater regulation and pro-competition directives. However, they’re not fully clear what aspects exactly are being investigated. This new designation stems
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