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As the EU debates its Digital Markets Act, calls have grown louder for manufacturers to remove all applications pre-installed on new phones in order to combat the oligopoly of “gatekeepers” such as Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon and Microsoft. EURACTIV France reports.
“The problem with the proposals as they are drafted [by the Commission] is they don’t take account of user behaviour,” explained Andy Yen, founder and CEO of Swiss company Proton known for its encrypted webmail service, Protonmail.
“95% of people never change their default settings, meaning even if users have the option of uninstalling, in all likelihood a default app will remain a default app,” he told EURACTIV, adding that “Apple and Google know this and benefit from it. ”
Section 6 of the forthcoming Digital Markets Act (DMA), which “allows end-users to uninstall any pre-installed software application […] without prejudice” still leaves scope for pre-installed apps on new phones.
For instance, as pointed out by Renew MEP Stéphanie Yon-Courtin, Google sets its search engine as a default browser “by paying Apple billions every year to be the default browser on all iPhones: it’s a direct form of self-preferencing!”
Read more here. (Euractiv)
“The problem with the proposals as they are drafted [by the Commission] is they don’t take account of user behaviour,” explained Andy Yen, founder and CEO of Swiss company Proton known for its encrypted webmail service, Protonmail.
“95% of people never change their default settings, meaning even if users have the option of uninstalling, in all likelihood a default app will remain a default app,” he told EURACTIV, adding that “Apple and Google know this and benefit from it. ”
Section 6 of the forthcoming Digital Markets Act (DMA), which “allows end-users to uninstall any pre-installed software application […] without prejudice” still leaves scope for pre-installed apps on new phones.
For instance, as pointed out by Renew MEP Stéphanie Yon-Courtin, Google sets its search engine as a default browser “by paying Apple billions every year to be the default browser on all iPhones: it’s a direct form of self-preferencing!”
Read more here. (Euractiv)
