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
Starting December 18, firms like Apple and Google will be prohibited from blocking third party app stores on iPhone and Android devices.<\/p>\n
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
The Fair Trade Commission says the changes will improve convenience by encouraging new market entrants.<\/p>\n
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…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":177084,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[2300,53201,1759,53202,342,111,43,139,22835,53205,53206,53207,53204,603,69,53203,53208,370,145,377],"class_list":["post-177083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mobile","tag-asia","tag-biz","tag-japan","tag-japan-broadcasting-corporation","tag-mobile","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nhk","tag-nhk-world","tag-nhk-world-premium","tag-nhk-world-tv","tag-nhkworld","tag-nuclear","tag-nz","tag-public-broadcaster","tag-radio-japan","tag-tech","tag-technology","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177083\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}