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Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
owa ("Open Web Advocacy") wrote:
Japan’s new Smartphone act requires that Apple allow browser vendors to use their own engines in Japan. However, Apple looks set to use the same tactic it has used in the EU to avoid complying with the same provision of the Digital Markets Act for the last twenty-one months.
Read our full analysis here:
https://open-web-advocacy.org/blog/how%5Fapples%5Fkey%5Ftactic%5Fcould%5Fprevent%5Fjapans%5Fsmartphone%5Fact%5Ffrom%5Fimproving%5Fbrowser%5Fcompetition/Namely, Apple demands that browser vendors lose all their existing Japanese users and produce a brand new browser, rather than simply updating their existing users.