After the #Microsoft frenzy last week and the #Apple disaster yesterday, on today's menu is the @EUCommission #DMA compliance workshop with #Alphabet #Google.
What should I do?
- Live toot about it again (76%, 50 votes)
- Give us the general conclusions only (21%, 14 votes)
- Shut up and let us be, nobody cares about the DMA (1%, 1 vote)
Jan Penfrat
in reply to Jan Penfrat • • •Okay thank you all, it looks like I'm gonna live toot at least the juicy stuff 😀
Interestingly, the Commission introductory talk included a reference to how the fact that #Android is essentially #opensource software facilitates #DMA compliance. 😍
(Which does of course not mean there is no non-compliance in Alphabet products, there certainly is.)
Jan Penfrat
in reply to Jan Penfrat • • •Yay #Google goes full in, claiming the #DMA would make Europeans "second class citizens" on Android 😆
And they do the same thing #Apple did yesterday: counting the number of meetings with regulators and other stakeholders in n attempt of proving good will. Still think this rather raises the question how the heck Google can still be non-compliant after all that engagement. 🤷🏼♂️
Jan Penfrat
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in reply to Jan Penfrat • • •Hmmm, so #Google lobbyists claim "All apps on Android can be uninstalled" but from my testing on #Android 16 with all latest updates on a #Pixel this appears to be false.
Google's own #DMA compliance report from March 2025 says this is wrong:
"Android allows to uninstall apps by: (i) fully deleting apps that are downloaded or pre-installed in the user partition; and (ii) uninstalling apps in the system partition such that they are returned into an uninstalled state."
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