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@ 2022/11/24Apparently no one noticed before
The UK's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has launched a market investigation into cloud gaming and mobile browsers after its study found Apple and Google constitute a duopoly that controls the mobile ecosystem.
After a year of looking at the situation the CMA concluded Apple and Google have "a stranglehold over operating systems, app stores and web browsers on mobile devices" – the UK competition watchdog said at the time that it intended to escalate by opening a formal investigation.
Now it seems that inquiry has begun and it should take 18 months -- quite how it takes 30 months to prove what a ten year old could work out is anyone's guess. "If" it finds that Apple and Google rule the mobile world it "might" impose remedies, such as demanding a change in the way certain products are sold, requiring the divestment of business units, or insisting upon the removal of anti-competitive restrictions. Apple and Google will appeal and years later pay a fine which will be so comparitively small that the pair will take less than two seconds to make the money in profits.
The UK's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has launched a market investigation into cloud gaming and mobile browsers after its study found Apple and Google constitute a duopoly that controls the mobile ecosystem.
After a year of looking at the situation the CMA concluded Apple and Google have "a stranglehold over operating systems, app stores and web browsers on mobile devices" – the UK competition watchdog said at the time that it intended to escalate by opening a formal investigation.
Now it seems that inquiry has begun and it should take 18 months -- quite how it takes 30 months to prove what a ten year old could work out is anyone's guess. "If" it finds that Apple and Google rule the mobile world it "might" impose remedies, such as demanding a change in the way certain products are sold, requiring the divestment of business units, or insisting upon the removal of anti-competitive restrictions. Apple and Google will appeal and years later pay a fine which will be so comparitively small that the pair will take less than two seconds to make the money in profits.
