{"id":624097,"date":"2025-12-10T11:33:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T11:33:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/624097\/"},"modified":"2025-12-10T11:33:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T11:33:11","slug":"japan-law-opening-phone-app-stores-to-go-into-effect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/624097\/","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":624098,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3159],"tags":[521,36313,2122,36315,547,12,36314,36318,36319,36320,36317,1767,36316,36321,326,53,16,15,26],"class_list":{"0":"post-624097","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-japan","11":"tag-japan-broadcasting-corporation","12":"tag-mobile","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-nhk","15":"tag-nhk-world","16":"tag-nhk-world-premium","17":"tag-nhk-world-tv","18":"tag-nhkworld","19":"tag-nuclear","20":"tag-public-broadcaster","21":"tag-radio-japan","22":"tag-tech","23":"tag-technology","24":"tag-uk","25":"tag-united-kingdom","26":"tag-world"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115695059492068101","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=624097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624097\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/624098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=624097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=624097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=624097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}