Apple's pleas ineffective: iPadOS on EU's gatekeeper list

The European Commission just brought months of legal wrangling to an end with a decision to add Apple's iPadOS to the Digital Markets Act's list of gatekeepers. 

The Commission said today that iPadOS (Apple split its iPhone and iPad iOS derivatives in late 2019) had been added to the existing register of DMA gatekeepers, and said Apple had six months to get the platform compliant with DMA gatekeeper standards. 

As for what that may look like, we need only turn to iOS, which is already on the gatekeeper list (alongside Windows and Android) and has undergone a number of changes to comply. Among them have been opening iOS to third-party web browsers and third-party app stores, as well as allowing devs to distribute apps from the web. We can likely expect similar things from a DMA-influenced iPadOS. 

DMA gatekeepers, for those unfamiliar, are online platforms with a large ...