Apple-Google mobile ‘duopoly’ faces UK antitrust scrutiny


The CMA said it will consider whether Apple and Google use their position as the owners of the main app stores to exploit consumers and developers as well as their supply of mobile browsers. — Pixabay

Google and Apple Inc face a sweeping probe into the “duopoly” power of their mobile ecosystems, in the UK antitrust watchdog’s latest attack on Silicon Valley.

The increasingly tech-focused Competition and Markets Authority opened a 12-month market study into broad aspects of the iOS and Android systems, saying it feared the companies’ dominance is stifling competition. The investigation adds to the regulator’s separate investigations into both tech giants.

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