The European Commission announced on Monday that because of its significance to corporate customers, EU antitrust officials have identified Apple’s iPad operating system as a gatekeeper under the bloc’s historic tech regulations.
22 services owned by Apple, Alphabet’s Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta Platforms, and ByteDance, the owner of TikTok, have already been designated as gatekeepers under the Digital Markets Act, which went into effect this year. These services regulate access to their own platforms.
Margrethe Vestager, the head of EU antitrust, stated in a statement, “Our market investigation revealed that, despite not meeting the thresholds, iPadOS constitutes an important gateway on which many companies rely to reach their customers.”
According to the Commission, Apple’s end user count was almost at the barrier and was expected to increase in the near future, but its corporate user count exceeded the quantitative level eleven times. It said that due to iPadOS’s extensive ecosystem, both end users and business users are bound into the platform.
The European executive made the judgment after an inquiry that was started in September of last year. Last year, Apple’s App Store, Safari browser, and iOS operating system were all named gatekeepers.
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