App stores, antitrust and their links to net neutrality: A review of the European policy and academic debate leading to the EU Digital Markets Act
Google and Apple’s smartphone and tablet ‘app’ stores are facing significant antitrust scrutiny in Europe, culminating in enforcement action by the European Commission and specific obligations in the new EU Digital Markets Act. In a field previously dominated by US law and jurisprudence, we review t...
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| description | Google and Apple’s smartphone and tablet ‘app’ stores are facing significant antitrust scrutiny in Europe, culminating in enforcement action by the European Commission and specific obligations in the new EU Digital Markets Act. In a field previously dominated by US law and jurisprudence, we review the main European antitrust-related evidence and policy arguments for and against such app store regulation. We further show how this discourse is linked to the heavily-contested policy area of network neutrality. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-29f7cd806d92428fb21a6575c12350da2025-03-05T13:43:29ZengAlexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and SocietyInternet Policy Review2197-67752023-01-0112110.14763/2023.1.1676App stores, antitrust and their links to net neutrality: A review of the European policy and academic debate leading to the EU Digital Markets ActChristopher T. Marsden0Ian Brown1Monash Law SchoolFundação Getulio VargasGoogle and Apple’s smartphone and tablet ‘app’ stores are facing significant antitrust scrutiny in Europe, culminating in enforcement action by the European Commission and specific obligations in the new EU Digital Markets Act. In a field previously dominated by US law and jurisprudence, we review the main European antitrust-related evidence and policy arguments for and against such app store regulation. We further show how this discourse is linked to the heavily-contested policy area of network neutrality.https://policyreview.info/node/1676AntitrustApp StorePlatform regulationEuropean UnionDigital Markets Act |
| spellingShingle | Christopher T. Marsden Ian Brown App stores, antitrust and their links to net neutrality: A review of the European policy and academic debate leading to the EU Digital Markets Act Internet Policy Review Antitrust App Store Platform regulation European Union Digital Markets Act |
| title | App stores, antitrust and their links to net neutrality: A review of the European policy and academic debate leading to the EU Digital Markets Act |
| title_full | App stores, antitrust and their links to net neutrality: A review of the European policy and academic debate leading to the EU Digital Markets Act |
| title_fullStr | App stores, antitrust and their links to net neutrality: A review of the European policy and academic debate leading to the EU Digital Markets Act |
| title_full_unstemmed | App stores, antitrust and their links to net neutrality: A review of the European policy and academic debate leading to the EU Digital Markets Act |
| title_short | App stores, antitrust and their links to net neutrality: A review of the European policy and academic debate leading to the EU Digital Markets Act |
| title_sort | app stores antitrust and their links to net neutrality a review of the european policy and academic debate leading to the eu digital markets act |
| topic | Antitrust App Store Platform regulation European Union Digital Markets Act |
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