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Will this law also apply to Nintendo, Xbox, and Play Station systems?

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• lost_tourist 4y ago
  They're just going for the elephant in the room first. Cell phones are ubiquitous and touch most facets of modern life, game stations do not.
• Someone 4y ago
  I would think Nintendo and Sony wouldn’t pass the bar for being a gatekeeper because they don’t provide “a core platform service to more than 45 million monthly active end users established or located in the EU _AND_(emphasis_added)_ to more than 10,000 yearly active business users established in the EU;” (https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/api/files/document/print/en/ip_22_6423/IP_22_6423_EN.pdf https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/api/files/docume...) Xbox will be an interesting case. Microsoft easily passes that bar, but I would think that product doesn’t. I guess splitting iOS in a consumer version and a business version would be a way to get around the letter of that law, but I expect the EU wouldn’t be happy with that, and very rapidly “designate the company as a gatekeeper on the basis of a qualitative assessment, even if it does not meet the quantitative thresholds” (https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/QANDA_20_2349 https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/QANDA_...)
  • rahkiin 4y ago
    Game developers are business users though, aren’t they?