Ben DelarreFeb 27
Alex Russell

If you are in the UK, I'd like to beg 5-10 minutes of your time to file comment with the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) about the proposed (toothless) "Interoperability Commitments" from Apple and Google.

These are dramatically weaker guidelines than even the EU's DMA, and Apple (particularly) has been utterly contemptuous there, ducking compliance for more than a year. Why is the UK rewarding scofflaw behaviour over these predatory practices?

https://open-web-advocacy.org/blog/apples-interoperability-commitments-to-the-uk-cma-promise-nothing/

/cc @pluralistic

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Show threadKevin RussellFeb 27

@slightlyoff @pluralistic

Pur that it's why you're voting green in the comments two or three times.

#uk #digital

Show threadJustin MacleodFeb 27
@slightlyoff @pluralistic I absolutely feel there should be greater inter-operability requirements. However, I'm not very technical and am unsure what this would mean in practice, how far it could go etc. In short, I am unsure of how to write a cogent email on the subject that the CMA might listen to. Are there any resources that might provide guidance or a template?
Show threadAlex RussellFeb 27

@JustinMac84 @pluralistic A good question for @owa.

My advice would be to call for regulatory alignment with the EU's DMA at a minimum. Actionable timelines for interoperability requests, transparent and public processes, and no hiding the ball when it comes to requests that are initially denied.

Apple have been playing games around this sort of things since the DMA came into force, and what UK is proposing is exponentially weaker.

Show threadJustin MacleodFeb 27
@slightlyoff Would this inter-operability also short-circuit Google's desire to centralise Android app development or is this targeted only at Apple? I think I saw Google's name mentioned. @pluralistic
Show threadAlex RussellFeb 27
@JustinMac84 @pluralistic Both.
Show threadDavip PrestnodFeb 27
@slightlyoff @pluralistic the DMCCA is only recently brought into effect and the CMA have a lot more bite with it in a broad scope of ways. I've reading the act a little and was going to use for a online betting website that was making up it's own rules, also to see if fdroid could helped and this apple thing also falls into that as well. I am wondering what is the most effective way to bring this to their attention, some succinct and cogent that possibly goes through MP & HoL as well could help