WhatsApp will allow messaging with other chat apps, and Apple will let iPhone owners download apps from rival app stores. Here's what's set to change under a major new EU law forcing big tech to play ...

As part of its broader mission to rein in the power of tech giants, Android Authority reports that the European Union (EU) is investigating whether iMessage qualifies as a "gatekeeper platform" under ...

The security preferences on my iMac have the Gatekeeper setting configured to "App store and identified developers". I don't recall ever setting it to anything other than this. I use products from ...

Apple has officially joined Meta and TikTok in appealing the European Union’s designation of their services as “gatekeepers” under the Digital Markets Act (DMA)—a strict EU antitrust law aimed at ...

I've long speculated that iOS 17 will support sideloading in the European Union (EU) because of the Digital Markets Act (DMA) law, and now, it's finally official. No, Apple hasn't actually announced ...

The EU has classified the iPadOS as a "gatekeeper." Here's what that means. Credit: Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images By now, you've likely heard that mobile software developers no longer have ...

Apple is already complaining about ‘data security risks’ from people sideloading apps on iPhone, and disagrees that iMessage is a ‘gatekeeper.’ Reading time 3 minutes The European Union is now coming ...

Via Financial Times, Apple is claiming that iMessage is not big enough to classify as a gatekeeper service under the definitions of the EU’s Digital Markets Act (DMA) regulation. The justification for ...

In a perhaps unsurprising move, Bloomberg reports Apple is set to appeal to the European Union about the inclusion of its App Store and iMessage services in the Digital Markets Act. The EU has deemed ...

Apple will make bypassing Gatekeeper’s runtime protection harder in macOS Sequoia by doing away with a handy shortcut that allows Mac users to avoid security restrictions for software that doesn’t ...