Information: Japan Enacts Regulatory Law which targets Apple as well as Google Smartphone Market Dominance

Japan is the latest nation to pass legislation that targets businesses like Apple Inc. or Google LLC from limiting third-party firms that would like to distribute and market their own apps for Google as well as Apple devices.

Per Kyodo News, "The legislation will bar the makers of Apple's iOS and Google's Android smartphone operating systems, apps stores and payment providers from blocking the sale of apps or products that directly compete with the native platform's." This is in order to prevent the platform providers from "gatekeeping" and creating more rivalry between their apps as well as other platforms.

Although Japan's current antimonopoly law provides fines of up to 6% of the revenue gained through anticompetitive methods. The penalties in this new law are more specific. They're 20% of the revenues generated in the country from services not in compliance with this law. The amount increases to 30% if illegal practices continue to exist.

The law is expected to take effect at the end of 2025 as Kyodo News points out is like one of European Union's most recent rules (presumably this is the European Union's Digital Markets Act).

Kyodo News also reports that both Apple as well as Google issued announcements regarding their ongoing partnership with Japanese regulators.

An earlier report from Kyodo News regarding the regulation that was first approved by Japan's Cabinet described its approval of the rule as "a step to contest the duopoly monopoly that is imposed by industry giants Apple Inc. as well as Google LLC," and stated that the rule demonstrates the Japanese government's desire to sign up with the EU through the enactment of further regulations "of Big Tech firms such like Apple, Google and Amazon.com Inc. as well as Google Inc., who are now able to exercise immense influence over global digital platforms."

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