Recently the European Union, abbreviated as DMA Digital Markets Act had set it in motion. With these regulations, many technology giants were forced to create regulations to allow other companies to access the markets in which they operated. For example, Meta was forced to modify several social media and messaging applications to be compatible with third-party applications. Similarly, Apple had to allow third-party services in the EU.

Today a development occurred that closely affects both Apple and Microsoft. The European Union made a statement regarding some of the prominent services provided by both companies.

“They are not major subsidiaries of the company.”

Issuing a press release on this subject EU officials, “After an extensive evaluation of all arguments, taking into account the views of relevant stakeholders, and after hearing the Digital Markets Advisory Committee, the committee iMessage, Bing, Edge and Microsoft Publishing He decided he did not qualify as a gatekeeper.‘ he said. Threshold gatekeeper is a phrase used to describe people, institutions and organizations that control the entrances and exits of a sector.

Commission, over a period of 5 months He had researched different services from different companies. The initial statement in September listed 22 services, including several such as the Apple App Store, the iOS operating system and the Safari browser, as the key business areas of tech giants. While iMessage, Bing, and Edge are comfortable for now, we’d like to remind you that a similar review process continues for iPadOS. Still, Apple is pushing cross-platform features on iPhones under pressure from Google. RCS messages It is known that it will support the feature.