Japan has drafted up a law that "will create a list of what OS providers must not do in order to stop them favoring their own services and payment platforms" - OS providers here being Apple and Google and iOS and Android. The law will "oblige Apple and Google to allow users to download from app stores other than theirs if enough security and privacy protection measures are taken for the stores", "allow users to pay through third-party platforms" and "allow users to delete the apps easily and required not to give preferential treatment to their own services in their search engines". This Japanese law, plus the EU's Digital Markets Act, are really putting the squeeze on these walled gardens to open up and I am loving it.
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