Following an almost eight-month investigation into whether Apple’s iPadOS holds enough market power to warrant stricter regulation, the European Commission has now designated the iPad operating system as a Gatekeeper service under its flagship Digital Markets Act rules.
The Commission says its investigation found that iPadOS users are locked into the platform, noting that the number of business users exceeded the quantitative gatekeeper threshold by “eleven times,” while end user numbers were “close to the threshold and are predicted to rise in the near future.
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