{"id":20152,"date":"2025-03-19T15:30:59","date_gmt":"2025-03-19T15:30:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scannn.com\/the-eus-competition-rules-are-hurting-consumers-and-businesses\/"},"modified":"2025-03-19T15:30:59","modified_gmt":"2025-03-19T15:30:59","slug":"the-eus-competition-rules-are-hurting-consumers-and-businesses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scannn.com\/lv\/the-eus-competition-rules-are-hurting-consumers-and-businesses\/","title":{"rendered":"The EU\u2019s competition rules are hurting consumers and businesses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p data-block-key=\"cg34l\">Today\u2019s announcement by the European Commission pushes for more changes to Google Search, Android and Play that will hurt European businesses and consumers, hinder innovation, weaken security, and degrade product quality.<\/p>\n<h3 data-block-key=\"41d50\">Hurting European consumers and businesses<\/h3>\n<p data-block-key=\"5gajp\">The Commission\u2019s findings require us to make even more changes to how we show certain types of Search results, which would make it harder for people to find what they are looking for and reduce traffic to European businesses. This is, quite simply, misguided.<\/p>\n<h3 data-block-key=\"at6o6\">Exposing Europeans to malware and fraud from bad apps<\/h3>\n<p data-block-key=\"9snd3\">The Commission findings on Android and Play create a false choice between openness and security. They risk exposing people in Europe to more malware and fraud and may mean that we can\u2019t provide as much openness in the future:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li data-block-key=\"3llqq\">Unlike on iOS where Apple must review apps first, developers can freely distribute apps on Android. This creates more choice than any other platform &#8211; users can access 50 times more apps on Android than iOS. But if we can\u2019t protect our users from scammy or malicious links that take our users outside of the secure Play environment, then the Commission is effectively forcing us to choose between a closed model and an unsafe one.<\/li>\n<li data-block-key=\"51hfh\">Similarly, if we can\u2019t charge reasonable fees to support the ongoing development of Android and the Play services we offer, then we can\u2019t invest in an open platform that powers billions of phones around the world, helping not just those who can afford to spend 1000 Euros on the latest premium model.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p data-block-key=\"ersf5\">We will keep engaging with the Commission and comply with its rules. But today\u2019s findings now increase the risk of an even worse experience for Europeans. The DMA is designed to regulate large platforms like Google, Apple and Meta, and boost competition, but in reality, it is having the opposite effect by hurting European businesses and consumers. We hope to find a way of addressing these concerns.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.google\/around-the-globe\/google-europe\/the-eus-competition-rules-are-hurting-consumers-and-businesses\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today\u2019s announcement by the European Commission pushes for more changes to Google Search, Android and Play that will hurt European businesses and consumers, hinder innovation, weaken security, and degrade product quality. Hurting European consumers and businesses The Commission\u2019s findings require us to make even more changes to how we show certain types of Search results, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20153,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[100],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-google"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scannn.com\/lv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scannn.com\/lv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scannn.com\/lv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scannn.com\/lv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scannn.com\/lv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scannn.com\/lv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20152\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scannn.com\/lv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scannn.com\/lv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scannn.com\/lv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scannn.com\/lv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}