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If you are in the UK, I'd like to beg 5-10 minutes of your time to file comment with the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) about the proposed (toothless) "Interoperability Commitments" from Apple and Google.
These are dramatically weaker guidelines than even the EU's DMA, and Apple (particularly) has been utterly contemptuous there, ducking compliance for more than a year. Why is the UK rewarding scofflaw behaviour over these predatory practices?
/cc @pluralistic
@slightlyoff @pluralistic I absolutely feel there should be greater inter-operability requirements. However, I'm not very technical and am unsure what this would mean in practice, how far it could go etc. In short, I am unsure of how to write a cogent email on the subject that the CMA might listen to. Are there any resources that might provide guidance or a template?
@JustinMac84 @pluralistic A good question for @owa.
My advice would be to call for regulatory alignment with the EU's DMA at a minimum. Actionable timelines for interoperability requests, transparent and public processes, and no hiding the ball when it comes to requests that are initially denied.
Apple have been playing games around this sort of things since the DMA came into force, and what UK is proposing is exponentially weaker.
Pur that it's why you're voting green in the comments two or three times.
