23-07-2025
After six months, the UK confirms Google and Apple are both big tech companies.
Posted Jul 23, 2025 at 11:53 AM UTC After six months, the UK confirms Google and Apple are both big tech companies.
The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has proposed giving them 'strategic market status' for iOS and Android, since over 90 percent of UK mobile devices run either OS.
It took the CMA since January to figure out what the EU did two years ago, and somehow it's not done yet — it'll take until October to confirm the proposal, around the same time it will 'begin consulting' on its roadmaps to rein the two in. CMA proposes action to drive more competition on mobile platforms
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