{"id":225396,"date":"2025-12-10T10:52:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T10:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/225396\/"},"modified":"2025-12-10T10:52:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T10:52:10","slug":"japan-law-opening-phone-app-stores-to-go-into-effect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/225396\/","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":225397,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[257],"tags":[2786,36586,18,19,17,386,36588,279,5,36587,36591,36592,36593,36590,31899,36589,36594,753,82,65],"class_list":{"0":"post-225396","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-eire","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-japan","14":"tag-japan-broadcasting-corporation","15":"tag-mobile","16":"tag-news","17":"tag-nhk","18":"tag-nhk-world","19":"tag-nhk-world-premium","20":"tag-nhk-world-tv","21":"tag-nhkworld","22":"tag-nuclear","23":"tag-public-broadcaster","24":"tag-radio-japan","25":"tag-tech","26":"tag-technology","27":"tag-world"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115694897916562184","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225396\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}