{"id":171448,"date":"2023-09-06T12:27:57","date_gmt":"2023-09-06T17:27:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/were-not-gatekeepers-apple-and-microsoft-tell-european-union"},"modified":"2023-09-06T12:27:57","modified_gmt":"2023-09-06T17:27:57","slug":"were-not-gatekeepers-apple-and-microsoft-tell-european-union","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/were-not-gatekeepers-apple-and-microsoft-tell-european-union","title":{"rendered":"\u201cWe\u2019re not \u2018gatekeepers,\u2019\u201d Apple and Microsoft tell European Union"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/were-not-gatekeepers-apple-and-microsoft-tell-european-union.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Companies would have to offer users alternatives to iMessage, Bing.<\/p>\n<p>The legislation imposes new responsibilities on tech companies, including sharing data, linking to competitors, and making their services interoperable with rival apps.<\/p>\n<p>Platforms with an annual\u2026 More.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Apple and Microsoft have argued with Brussels that some of their services are insufficiently popular to be designated as \u201cgatekeepers\u201d under new landmark EU legislation designed to curb the power of Big Tech.<\/p>\n<p>Brussels\u2019 battle with the two US companies over Apple\u2019s iMessage chat app and Microsoft\u2019s Bing search engine comes ahead of Wednesday\u2019s publication of the first list of services to be regulated by the Digital Markets Act.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Companies would have to offer users alternatives to iMessage, Bing. The legislation imposes new responsibilities on tech companies, including sharing data, linking to competitors, and making their services interoperable with rival apps. Platforms with an annual\u2026 More. Apple and Microsoft have argued with Brussels that some of their services are insufficiently popular to be designated [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-171448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171448\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}