Info: Japan Enacts Regulatory Law to target Apple and Google market dominance in the smartphone space

Japan is the most recent country to adopt a law that target companies like Apple Inc. along with Google LLC from limiting third-party firms that are seeking to market and sell their own apps for Google as well as Apple devices.

According to Kyodo News, "The law will prevent the developers of the Apple's iOS and Google's Android smartphones operating systems, app stores and payment services from restricting the sale of apps and services which directly compete with that of the original platform." This will stop apps from "gatekeeping" while also forcing to create more competition between their apps and the ones of other platforms.

Current Japan antimonopoly law provides penalties of six percent for profits earned by anticompetitive practice the penalties of this law are more precise. The fines are 20% of the earnings from the products that violate of the law. They'll increase by 30% if illegal practices continue to exist.

The law is expected to come into the year 2025. Kyodo News points out is very similar to a recent EU rules (presumably that of it's the EU's Digital Markets Act).

Kyodo News also reports that both Apple and Google have issued announcements about their continued engagement in partnership with Japanese regulators.

A previous article from Kyodo News regarding the regulation which was approved first by Japan's Cabinet stated that it was a vote to approve the law as "a strategy to combat the duopoly created by the industry bigwigs Apple Inc. and Google LLC." Google LLC as Google LLC," and stated that the new regulation shows the Japanese government's intent to join forces with the EU by enacting further rules "of Big Tech firms such like Apple, Google and Amazon.com Inc., which have come to exert huge influence over online services around the world."

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