{"id":178181,"date":"2025-12-10T18:26:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T18:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/178181\/"},"modified":"2025-12-10T18:26:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T18:26:07","slug":"japan-law-opening-phone-app-stores-to-go-into-effect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/178181\/","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":178182,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[337,81874,85,46,1437,81875,321,43,15611,81878,81879,81880,81877,6026,81876,81881,920,125,2711],"class_list":{"0":"post-178181","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mobile","8":"tag-asia","9":"tag-biz","10":"tag-il","11":"tag-israel","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\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178181\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}