UK’s Competition Authority scolds Apple for its browser policies | Infinium-tech

The UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has today published its final report related to its investigation in mobile browsers and cloud gaming. It finds that “competition between various mobile browsers is not working well, and it is withdrawing innovation in the UK, according to the CMA’s independent inquiry group president Margot Daelly”.

The next step is already running – CMA has investigated in January to nominate Apple and Google as Strategic Market Status (SMS) under the UK’s new Digital Market Competition regime in January. The SMS investigation is expected to end “later this year”. The CMA can do – if the warrant has been done – under the digital markets, competition and consumer act that came into force in January this year – is – to be the SMS to legally enforce the requirements or pro -competition intervention of binding conduct on the firms designated.

If Apple and/or Google is designated with SMS, the CMA should “consider applying proper interventions”, today’s report states, “Measures that can increase the capacity of other browsers, offer new, new facilities to consumers and compete with new facilities and can actively enable users to choose their favorite mobile browser.”

This is clearly more about Apple than Google, other browser engines other than the webkit used by Safari with iPhone and iPad manufacturers are not allowed to give strength to any competitive mobile browser. The situation on Android is completely different. What is worth it, CMA decided that no further action in relation to cloud gaming (which was the second part of the investigation) is not necessary.

The investigation of the CMA with today’s report was opened in 2021, and for some reason it took about four years to come to these very clear conclusions.

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