EU’s Digital Market Act (DMA) aims to nurture and promote the European digital industry. One of the main impacts of DMA will be to contain the power of tech giants by
– compeling Apple to let iPhone-users bypass its app store and “sideload” software from elsewhere;
– forcing Meta to make its WhatsApp and other messaging services work with rival ones; and
– requiring Google to show content from European publishers in its search engine.
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