After the news cycle recently exploded with the announcement that Google would require every single Android app to be from a registered and verified developer, while killing third-party app stores …
The gatekeeper shall not require end users to use, or business users to use, to offer, or to interoperate with, an identification service, a web browser engine or a payment service, or technical services that support the provision of payment services, such as payment systems for in-app purchases, of that gatekeeper in the context of services provided by the business users using that gatekeeper’s core platform services.
Does this violate the EU Digital Markets Act?
source: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2022/1925/oj/eng
By the way, you can contact the digital markets act team here and raise the issue! https://digital-markets-act.ec.europa.eu/contact-dma-team_en