News: Japan Enacts Regulatory Law to target Apple and Google Smartphone Marketplace Dominance -
Japan has become the latest country to enact regulatory laws targeting companies such as Apple Inc. along with Google LLC from limiting third-party businesses that wish to distribute and monetize their own apps on Google as well as Apple devices.
Per Kyodo News, "The law prohibits the developers of Apple's iOS and Google's Android smartphone operating systems, apps stores as well as payment systems from hindering the selling of apps and services that directly compete with the native platforms." This is to prevent the platform providers from "gatekeeping" as well as causing greater competition between their own applications and those of other platforms.
The current Japan antimonopoly law penalizes 6% on revenues gained by anticompetitive practice, penalties in this new particular law amount to 20% of the domestic revenue earned from services that are in violation of this law, increasing to 30% if the violations aren't stopped.
The law is scheduled to be in effect at the end of 2025, which Kyodo News points out is similar to one of the recently issued EU regulations (presumably the Europe's Digital Markets Act).
Kyodo News also reports that both Apple and Google released statements concerning their continuing involvement with Japanese regulators.
An earlier article from Kyodo News regarding the regulation being first passed by Japan's Cabinet declared its support for the regulation as "a attempt to combat the duopoly created by industry giants Apple Inc. as well as Google LLC," and also that this rule shows the Japanese government's intention to join with the EU by enacting further regulations "of Big Tech firms such as Apple, Google and Amazon.com Inc. that are now able to exercise significant influence over digital services across the globe."
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