{"id":339298,"date":"2025-12-10T11:33:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T11:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/339298\/"},"modified":"2025-12-10T11:33:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T11:33:09","slug":"japan-law-opening-phone-app-stores-to-go-into-effect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/339298\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan law opening phone app stores to go into effect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new Japanese law is going into effect that could loosen the dominance of tech giants over smartphone services. It aims to bring users greater choice for app stores and more.<\/p>\n<p>Starting December 18, firms like Apple and Google will be prohibited from blocking third party app stores on iPhone and Android devices.<\/p>\n<p>The law also aims to loosen their grip on web browsers and search. The firms will now be required to give first-time users multiple choices for default services. This also applies when people update their operating system.<\/p>\n<p>The Fair Trade Commission says the changes will improve convenience by encouraging new market entrants.<\/p>\n<p>But some public comments released by the commission expressed concern that the legislation could undermine user security.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A new Japanese law is going into effect that could loosen the dominance of tech giants over smartphone&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":339299,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[1724,64,63,86319,941,86320,203,44,32363,86323,86324,86325,86322,6216,86321,86326,1996,105,1720],"class_list":{"0":"post-339298","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mobile","8":"tag-asia","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-biz","12":"tag-japan","13":"tag-japan-broadcasting-corporation","14":"tag-mobile","15":"tag-news","16":"tag-nhk","17":"tag-nhk-world","18":"tag-nhk-world-premium","19":"tag-nhk-world-tv","20":"tag-nhkworld","21":"tag-nuclear","22":"tag-public-broadcaster","23":"tag-radio-japan","24":"tag-tech","25":"tag-technology","26":"tag-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=339298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339298\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/339299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}