{"id":2912,"date":"2023-04-06T17:57:08","date_gmt":"2023-04-06T17:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/german-antitrust-regulator-opens\/"},"modified":"2023-04-06T21:53:43","modified_gmt":"2023-04-06T21:53:43","slug":"german-antitrust-regulator-opens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/german-antitrust-regulator-opens\/","title":{"rendered":"German antitrust regulator opens door for curbs on Apple"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BERLIN (Reuters) -Germany&#8217;s antitrust regulator has opened the door for measures to curb Apple after deciding that the U.S. tech giant&#8217;s market dominance makes it worthy of such measures, the body said in a statement on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The Bundeskartellamt regulator has designated Apple a &#8220;company of paramount significance for competition across markets&#8221;, it said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The company is &#8211; beginning with its mobile devices such as the iPhone &#8211; the operator of a comprehensive digital ecosystem with a high significance for competition not only in Germany, but also in Europe and worldwide,&#8221; said Bundeskartellamt President Andreas Mundt.<\/p>\n<p>On the basis of the regulator&#8217;s decision, it can target practices &#8220;that pose a threat to competition and practices and effectively prevent them&#8221;, he added.<\/p>\n<p>Apple said it would continue to work with the cartel office to understand its concerns but that it planned to appeal the decision.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The (cartel office&#8217;s) designation misrepresents the fierce competition Apple faces in Germany, and it discounts the value of a business model that puts user privacy and security at its core,&#8221; an Apple spokesperson said in an emailed statement to Reuters.<\/p>\n<p>The German authority has already declared Google parent Alphabet and Facebook owner Meta companies of paramount significance for competition across markets.<\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by Rachel More, Editing by Friederike Heine)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/german-antitrust-regulator-opens\/file-photo-the-apple-inc-logo-is-seen-at-the\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-content\/uploads\/Reuters_Direct_Media\/USOnlineReportTechnologyNews\/tagreuters.com2023binary_LYNXMPEJ340AL-VIEWIMAGE.jpg\" alt=\"tagreuters.com2023binary_LYNXMPEJ340AL-VIEWIMAGE\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BERLIN (Reuters) -Germany&#8217;s antitrust regulator has opened the door for measures to curb Apple after deciding that the U.S. tech giant&#8217;s market dominance makes it worthy of such measures, the body said in a statement on Wednesday. The Bundeskartellamt regulator has designated Apple a &#8220;company of paramount significance for competition across markets&#8221;, it said. &#8220;The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":2913,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1220],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-u-s-technology"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-content\/uploads\/Reuters_Direct_Media\/USOnlineReportTechnologyNews\/tagreuters.com2023binary_LYNXMPEJ340AL-VIEWIMAGE.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2912"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2912\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2914,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2912\/revisions\/2914"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}