{"id":1305,"date":"2021-04-28T06:18:27","date_gmt":"2021-04-28T04:18:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/04\/28\/australias-competition-watchdog-wants-to-reduce-phone-app-duopoly-of-apple-and-google\/"},"modified":"2021-04-28T06:18:27","modified_gmt":"2021-04-28T04:18:27","slug":"australias-competition-watchdog-wants-to-reduce-phone-app-duopoly-of-apple-and-google","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/04\/28\/australias-competition-watchdog-wants-to-reduce-phone-app-duopoly-of-apple-and-google\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia\u2019s competition watchdog wants to reduce phone app duopoly of Apple and Google"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ACCC won\u2019t rule out regulation of tech giants if people aren\u2019t given more choice when setting up a new device<\/p>\n<p>People should be given a choice of apps other than the default Apple and Google phone apps when setting up a new device, under a raft of proposals from Australia\u2019s competition watchdog to reduce the duopoly the two tech giants have over the app store marketplaces.<\/p>\n<p>The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission\u2019s latest interim report arising from the long-running digital platforms inquiry has found that while Apple and Google compete with each other, both companies face very little competition in app distributions on their respective mobile platforms.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2021\/apr\/28\/australias-competition-watchdog-wants-to-reduce-phone-app-duopoly-of-apple-and-google\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/ef1b8afe8ba4fb739f108c49a47c5b017c581d64\/0_98_3312_1987\/master\/3312.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=18f81c74c72ce10eb7c3074777f2f17f\" title=\"Australia\u2019s competition watchdog wants to reduce phone app duopoly of Apple and Google\" \/>ACCC won\u2019t rule out regulation of tech giants if people aren\u2019t given more choice when setting up a new device<br \/>\nPeople should be given a choice of apps other than the default Apple and Google phone apps when setting up a new device, under a raft of proposals from Australia\u2019s competition watchdog to reduce the duopoly the two tech giants have over the app store marketplaces.<br \/>\nThe Australian Competition and Consumer Commission\u2019s latest interim report arising from the long-running digital platforms inquiry has found that while Apple and Google compete with each other, both companies face very little competition in app distributions on their respective mobile platforms. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ACCC won\u2019t rule out regulation of tech giants if people aren\u2019t given more choice when setting up a new device People should be given a choice of apps other than the default Apple and Google phone apps when setting up a new device, under a raft of proposals from Australia\u2019s competition watchdog to reduce the &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/04\/28\/australias-competition-watchdog-wants-to-reduce-phone-app-duopoly-of-apple-and-google\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Australia\u2019s competition watchdog wants to reduce phone app duopoly of Apple and Google<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1306,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1305"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1305\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}