Britain on Wednesday told Apple and Google to be fairer in how they distribute apps on their mobile platforms, setting out possible interventions as it plans to designate the U.S. tech companies with strategic market status over their duopoly.

"Around 90-100% of UK mobile devices running on Apple or Google's mobile platforms," the CMA said, adding this means the firms "hold an effective duopoly". Apple said it is concerned the ruling would negatively impact its customers in the UK, while Google called the decision "both disappointing and unwarranted".

Britain’s antitrust watchdog proposes labeling Google’s and Apple’s mobile ecosystems with “strategic market status.”

The U.K.’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) announced on Wednesday a proposal that would give Apple and Google’s mobile platforms “strategic market status” — a designation that allows the regulator to create rules that could change how their app stores operate and how their mobile software works.

Britain's competition regulator said it plans to designate Apple and Google with so-called strategic market status for their role in mobile ecosystems, as it steps up scrutiny of what it has described as their duopoly.

Britain's competition regulator has today outlined sweeping proposals that could force Apple to fundamentally alter how it operates its

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Both officials said the UK decision to force Apple to break its end-to-end encryption—which has been raised multiple times by top officials in Donald Trump’s administration—could impede technology agreements with the US.

Epic Games today criticized the focus of measures that the UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) is considering implementing against Apple

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