EU Regulators Move to Compel Apple to Open Up Operating System to Rival Technologies

‘Apple must provide free and effective interoperability to third party developers,’ the European Union stated.

Apple CEO Tim Cook at an event at Apple Park in Cupertino, Calif., on March 8, 2022. Brooks Kraft/Apple Inc./Reuters

The European Union stated on Sept. 19 that it will come up with a plan to compel Apple to open up its iPhone and iPad mobile operating systems to competing technologies.

The EU’s executive branch, the European Commission, said in an update that it has opened two “specification proceedings” that will spell out what Apple needs to do under the 27-nation bloc’s Digital Markets Act (DMA).