Apple challenges a European Commission decision by saying it has three browsers named Safari.
You may think that Safari is one browser. Apple itself advertises it as the same browser on different devices but guess what? The company kept us in the dark all this time.Under the European Commission’s Digital Markets Act (DMA), Apple, as well as Alphabet, Amazon, ByteDance, Meta, and Microsoft, have been designated as gatekeepers. DMA is a regulation that was rolled out last year to prevent tech giants from engaging in anticompetitive practices and imposing unfair conditions. Gatekeepers are platforms that are so dominant that consumers cannot avoid them. These six companies were given six months in September to make the following 22 core platform services DMA-compliant. A company is considered a gatekeeper if it serves as an important intermediary between businesses and its users in relation to core platform services, provided:
It achieves a certain turnover
It provides a service to more than 45 million monthly active end users in the EU or 10,000 yearly active business users in the EU
If the second criterion was met during the last three yearsWhen boasting about its Continuity feature, Apple talks about the sameness of the Safari browser.
