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Painful day for tech titans as EU finally sinks its regulatory teeth into them

www.theguardian.com Painful day for tech titans as EU finally sinks its regulatory teeth into them | John Naughton

Last week the six biggest operators – Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Meta, Microsoft and ByteDance – were forced to toe the line on competition, advertising, interoperability and more. It was a gamechanger

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This is great news but how long are we talking for this to go live? Shouldn't they already be DMA compliant?
- Today. The orders and regulations were laid out years ago. This is the deadline. Most mandated changes are already in place or have been worked to go online today. This is the reason the latest iOS update dropped one or two days ago, for example. It introduces some of the mandatory changes for the EU market.

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