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At the @fsfe we've just shared our views with the #UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) on #Apple’s proposed “interoperability commitments” under the Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act (#DMCCA).

Such weak requirements will deem interoperability ineffective, entrenching #Apple's monopolistic power in #UK's digital market.

The solution should be the enforcement of "interoperability-by-design". A broad #interoperability mandate is key for healthy and competitive digital markets.

“We thought the UK was going strong for 18 months or so here until the most recent decision to not mandate competing stores,” EPIC CEO Tim Sweeney said. “To not pursue that just seems like a blunder to me.” #CMA #DMCCA on.ft.com/4oC4tbD

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🇬🇧 Competition & Markets Authority #CMA ‘will delay until next year a key decision on whether to require #Apple to allow apps to be distributed without going through its #AppStore at all, prompting criticism from some developer campaign groups.’ #DMCCA on.ft.com/3TPCW8C

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🇬🇧 Competition & Markets Authority #CMA ‘will delay until next year a key decision on whether to require #Apple to allow apps to be distributed without going through its #AppStore at all, prompting criticism from some developer campaign groups.’ #DMCCA https://on.ft.com/3TPCW8C
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🇬🇧 Competition & Markets Authority #DMCCA provisional #SMS decisions & roadmaps of interventions on #mobile #ecosystems 👀 #Apple www.gov.uk/cma-cases/sm... #Google www.gov.uk/cma-cases/sm... #CMA

SMS investigation into Apple’s...
SMS investigation into Apple’s mobile platform

The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) is investigating whether to designate Apple as having strategic market status (SMS) in the provision of its mobile platform.

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‘#OpenAI’s #ChatGPT is the leading artificial intelligence chatbot in Europe, while the social media platforms that millions of Europeans use are mostly US-owned.’ #DMA #DMCCA #interoperability
Interesting panel on Collaborative Frontiers in #Messaging #Platforms & Tools, although I'm surprised mandated #interoperability for #NIICS under the #DMA (and potentially #DMCCA) wasn't mentioned! 730a06f6.flowpaper.com/GCCMMagazine...

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Well! Look what #Twitter founder and #Bluesky / #Nostr co-founder Jack #Dorsey just gave $10m to...

'The team at “and Other Stuff” is also working on a social media “Bill of Rights”…which spells out what social media platforms need to provide in areas like #privacy, #security, #interoperability, #transparency, #identity, self-governance, and #portability.' 👏 #DMA #DMCCA
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/16/jack-dorsey-pumps-10m-into-a-nonprofit-focused-on-open-source-social-media/

#Threads "reached 100m sign-ups faster than any other app in history, which you can partly attribute to its linkage to #Instagram and streamlined profile creation via your IG info. But even so, it’ll go down as a record either way, while Threads also reached 100m active users in just a few months." #interoperability #DMA #DMCCA #Meta #SelfPreferencing

From: @tchambers
https://indieweb.social/@tchambers/114811908883686443

Tim Chambers (@[email protected])

#Threads growth continues…. https://www.socialmediatoday.com/news/threads-celebrates-second-anniversary-party-hats/752287/

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