Ecologia Digital"…#theweb is not dominating #mobile the way it does desktop because it hasn't been allowed to compete. From Apple explicitly suppressing competing browsers & breaking critical features OSwide on the regular, to Google's history of discouraging internal teams from writing mobile web apps and denying competing browsers access to critical PWA features, the fix has been in for 15 yrs.
This grounding in #Apple & #Google proprietary #APIs is the root of the #duopolist's power."
https://infrequently.org/2026/04/the-web-is-an-antitrust-wedge/
This grounding in #Apple & #Google proprietary #APIs is the root of the #duopolist's power."
https://infrequently.org/2026/04/the-web-is-an-antitrust-wedge/
The Web Is An Antitrust Wedge
Armed with new powers to rein in the worst excesses of mobile's duopolists, regulators around the world are struggling to find their footing. The UK's CMA is only the latest to pose capitulation as success. Far from unlocking growth and dynamism, regulatory timidity is reducing enforcers' future room for manoeuvre and hampering home-grown competitors to Big Tech. Unleashing the web would fix a great deal of what's broken, but regulators are falling down on the job. It's time we spoke plainly about it.