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Re:EU Digital Markets Act, aimed at Google, Apple, Amazon, a... by M2Ys4U on Wednesday July 20, 2022 @12:23PM (#32168055)
>For example, if I make $500 “unhackablePhone”, where it literally doesn’t run web apps and every app is vetted by top-talent security researchers for weeks, and then I sell billions of these devices, do I then have to open up the ecosystem to allow anyone to be able to take a phone, punch in the passcode, and install a third party App Store?

Well that would depend, are you a "gatekeeper", as defined in the Regulation?

That is, do you have a significant impact on the EU's internal market (a turnover of €7.5bn or a €75bn market cap), provide a core platform service which is important for business users to reach end users (have have 45m monthly active end-users in the EU or 10k monthly active business users), enjoy an entrenched and durable position in your operations or foresee that you will enjoy such a position in the near future (i.e. you meet the above for three consecutive years)?

If you answered "no" to any part of that then you are not a gatekeeper, and these regulations do not apply to you.

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Re:EU Digital Markets Act, aimed at Google, Apple, Amazon, a... by creato on Wednesday July 20, 2022 @02:56PM (#32170507)
It seems clear that the hypothetical company would meet this definition, and the regulation would completely defeat the purpose of the proposed company.

I don’t know how useful this particular hypothetical is, but it’s definitely a “code smell” that the proposed company’s seemingly only options would be to limit sales to retain the “not a gatekeeper” status or stop doing business in the EU.

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