Recent News: Japan Enacts Regulatory Law to block Apple and Google Smartphone Market Dominance

Japan is the latest nation to have passed a law targeting companies such as Apple Inc. as well as Google LLC by having to restrict third-party firms who wish to market and distribute their own apps on Google in addition to Apple devices.

According to Kyodo News, "The laws will prohibit the creators of Apple's iOS and Google's Android smartphones operating systems, app store and payment platform from restricting the sales of apps or services directly competing with native platforms' own." The aim is to keep providers of platforms out of "gatekeeping" and also creating more rivalry between their apps as well as those on other platforms.

The present Japan antimonopoly law punishes 6 percent of the profits that are earned through unfair practices. The penalties that are in the newly enacted law are 20% on domestic revenues generated from services which are not in compliance of the law. They will increase by 30percent if unlawful practice continues to be in place.

The new law is anticipated to become effective by 2025's expiration date and, as Kyodo News points out is like one of the recent issued EU rules (presumably one from the European Union's Digital Markets Act).

Kyodo News also reports that both Apple as well as Google issued announcements concerning their continuing cooperation with Japanese regulators.

An earlier article published on Kyodo News regarding the regulation being first passed by Japan's Cabinet declared its support of the regulation as "a move to challenge the duopoly exerted by the industry bigwigs Apple Inc. and Google LLC," and stated that the rule demonstrates the Japanese government's desire to align with the EU with regards to enacting regulations "of Big Tech firms such as Apple, Google and Amazon.com Inc. and Google Inc., who have come to exert significant influence over digital services all over the world."

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