On Thursday, 5 February, the European Commission decided that neither Apple’s online advertising service nor its maps service would be designated a ‘gatekeeper’ under the Digital Markets Act (DMA). The company had brought both services to the European Commission’s attention last November.
Apple had then argued that, in their current form, neither of these tools constituted a ‘gatekeeper’ within the meaning of the DMA—i.e., a service that has a significant impact on the...