Apple, Google Risk UK Probe Over Mobile Browser Dominance
- Apple’s policies curb innovation in the browsers, the CMA says
- CMA’s intervention would undermine user privacy, Apple says
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Apple Inc. and Alphabet Inc. risk a formal UK investigation over their dominance of web browsers on mobile phones, according to a provisional decision targeting the tech giants’ stranglehold on mobile operating systems.
Mobile browser markets aren’t working well for businesses and millions of phone users in the UK, the Competition and Markets Authority said in a statement on Friday. The agency recommended investigating the two companies’ activities under tougher digital markets competition rules, which will come into force next year.