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...The commission may open a probe to determine if these services should face the new obligations set out in the DMA....
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...“The DMA poses some risk to Apple’s App Store commissions, which is the biggest part of their services business,” he says. It has already had some visible effects....
...European parliament MEPs — Karen Melchior, Tiemo Wölken, and Patrick Breyer — said in a statement to the Financial Times that it would be “in flagrant violation of the spirit, and likely the word of the DMA...
...Greater user choice may sound fine in theory, they argue, but it will challenge fundamental aspects of how services work....
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