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We reached a new milestone in ensuring the openness of digital markets.

Last week, 7 companies notified us they qualify as 'Gatekeepers' under the Digital Market Act.

We will check their submission before designating them. They will have 6 months to comply with the #DMA and, among others, be unable to:
- lock in users in their ecosystem;
- decide which apps you need pre-installed or which app store to use;
- treat their own products and services more favourably.

More: https://europa.eu/!H4FQJM
A visual with a black flip board listing the name of the 7 companies that notified the European Commission that they meet the thresholds to qualify as gatekeepers under the Digital Markets Act, and the cut-off date their submission will be reviewed: Sept 6 - Alphabet Sept 6 - Amazon Sept 6 - Apple Sept 6 - Bytedance Sept 6 - Meta Sept 6 - Microsoft Sept 6 – Samsung Above the flip board, the text “First potential Gatekeepers under the Digital Markets Act.” At the bottom of the visual is the logo of the European Commission.

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mihira🍉
mihira🍉  
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"Their messaging apps will have to interoperate with others."

Does that mean that if I have, lets say, Signal, would I be able to text people on WhatsApp?

Because "their messaging apps" is clear. But the "others" is a bit vague, unspecified.

And 6 months to implement that... I dream of that happening, but I doubt they would do in such a short time.
What will happen if they don't? Fines?
grin
grin  
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@mihira specifics are in DMA. Only the most basic functionality, but still it will be spectacular.
They have to offer open&free API for p2p interconnection now, for groups in 2 years, for voip in 4 years.
If not, fines.
@mihira🍉
grin
grin  
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@Bossito Very unlikely. Apart from technical problems you'd hit the brick wall of copyright lobby and the mickey mouse gang, and they hold the dicks of bot the us and eu lawmakers, they don't even dare to fart unless told to it's allowed by copyright.
Wolf_Baginski
Wolf_Baginski  
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There is one very obvious digital market that is missing, unless they're playing tricks with names.
Johan Empa
Johan Empa  
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@grin @Bossito The digital single market exist, or they're working on it. It's not perfect yet, but a lot of stuff is done:

No roaming charges, the ban of geoblocking in e-commerce , 'cross border data portability', DMA, DSA and GDPR.

https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/policies/digital-single-market/
@grin
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