Under the DMA, gatekeepers like Apple will be required to:
- Allow users to sideload apps directly from the internet and from third-party stores.
- Make services such as voice and video calling and messaging interoperable with third-party services.
- Allow app developers to offer third-party payments systems.
- Make sure all apps can be uninstalled.
- Allow users the option to change the default voice assistant.
- Give developers access to hardware features like near-field communication technology, secure elements and processors, authentication mechanisms, and the software used to control those technologies.
- Share data and metrics such as ads and marketing performance data with developers and competitors.
Who should it be?
National legislatures would be a good start.
Seems to me the EU is starting to imagine itself as what the US federal government became. That’s a problem, because what the US federal government became is tearing itself apart, and that’s with a civil war to bolster its claim to power.