{"id":991218,"date":"2026-02-11T07:42:20","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T02:12:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=991218"},"modified":"2026-02-11T07:47:49","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T02:17:49","slug":"apple-and-google-agree-app-store-changes-to-appease-uk-regulator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/11\/apple-and-google-agree-app-store-changes-to-appease-uk-regulator\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple and Google agree app store changes to appease UK regulator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apple and Google have agreed to make \u200dtheir mobile app stores fairer and more transparent for thousands \u2060of developers, Britain&#8217;s antitrust regulator said on Tuesday, hailing it as important first steps in its tougher regime. <\/p>\n<p>The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) \u200cdesignated the \u200ctwo tech giants as having &#8220;strategic market status&#8221; in smartphones in October, \u200cgiving it the power to demand specific changes to boost competition. <\/p>\n<p>Nearly all smartphones in Britain run either Apple iOS or Google&#8217;s Android operating systems, and their app stores and \u200bbrowsers have exclusive or dominant positions \u200bon their platforms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple and Google have agreed to make \u200dtheir mobile app stores fairer and more transparent for thousands \u2060of developers, Britain&#8217;s antitrust regulator said on Tuesday, hailing it as important first steps in its tougher regime. The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) \u200cdesignated the \u200ctwo tech giants as having &#8220;strategic market status&#8221; in smartphones in October, \u200cgiving it the power to demand specific changes to boost competition. Nearly all smartphones in Britain run either Apple iOS or Google&#8217;s Android operating systems, and their app stores and \u200bbrowsers have exclusive or dominant positions \u200bon their platforms.<\/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":[4,60,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-991218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/991218","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=991218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/991218\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=991218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=991218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=991218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}