{"id":990172,"date":"2026-02-06T08:49:46","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T03:19:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=990172"},"modified":"2026-02-06T09:00:47","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T03:30:47","slug":"apple-ads-and-apple-maps-should-not-be-designated-under-digital-markets-act-says-eu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/06\/apple-ads-and-apple-maps-should-not-be-designated-under-digital-markets-act-says-eu\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple Ads and Apple Maps should not be designated under Digital Markets Act, says EU"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The European Commission said on Thursday Apple&#8217;s Maps and Ads services will not be designated as gatekeepers \u200cunder \u200cthe EU&#8217;s Digital Markets Act, citing their relatively low \u200cusage and limited market impact in Europe. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Commission has concluded that Apple does not qualify as a gatekeeper in relation to Apple Ads and Apple Maps, as neither of these platform services \u200cconstitute \u200dan important gateway for business users \u200dto reach end users,&#8221; it said \u200cin a statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The European Commission said on Thursday Apple&#8217;s Maps and Ads services will not be designated as gatekeepers \u200cunder \u200cthe EU&#8217;s Digital Markets Act, citing their relatively low \u200cusage and limited market impact in Europe. &#8220;The Commission has concluded that Apple does not qualify as a gatekeeper in relation to Apple Ads and Apple Maps, as neither of these platform services \u200cconstitute \u200dan important gateway for business users \u200dto reach end users,&#8221; it said \u200cin a statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-990172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/990172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=990172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/990172\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=990172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=990172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=990172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}