The Biden administration in the United States aims to develop laws to correct the fact that IT giants Apple and Google give preferential treatment to their services in selling smartphone applications, which hinders competition and is disadvantageous to consumers. I decided to go.
President Biden attended a meeting to discuss fair competition at the White House on the 1st and received a recommendation from the Department of Commerce for reforming the smartphone app market.
Among them, there is an oligopoly of IT giants Apple and Google in terms of app sales, and there is no fair competition.
Specifically, for both companies, smartphones are pre-installed with app sales services, making it difficult for many consumers to obtain apps by other means. He pointed out that the requirement to use the payment system of other companies has become unnecessary barriers and costs, and it is necessary to promote competition with new legislation.
The Biden administration is a policy to work on Congress in the future with his proposal.
In the United States, there is growing criticism of the market monopoly of giant IT companies such as GAFA.
At the beginning of the meeting, President Biden said, ``Uncompetitive capitalism is just exploitation,'' and emphasized his stance to protect consumers by tightening regulations on large companies. There are also cautious opinions, and attention will be paid to the direction of the discussion.