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How DMA gatekeepers are responding to the EU’s new competition rules — in their own words

The compliance deadline for the six tech giants regulated under the European Union's Digital Markets Act (DMA) expired yesterday. Which means The first batch of gatekeeper compliance reports have now been published by Alphabet/Google, Amazon, Apple, ByteDance/TikTok, Meta and Microsoft.

Apple’s public-facing report is by far the briefest (just a 12-page summary, focused on changes to its App Store, iOS and Safari browser, though it’s written in quite readable prose), whereas Microsoft has opted for multi-part reportage — dividing disclosures into a series of discrete documents, related to its two designated core platform services (Windows and LinkedIn). As well as breaking it out into multiple downloads, its compliance disclosures are written in dry legal language and include redactions, suggesting it’s opted to reproduce formal submissions to the Commission for this public-facing part of its DMA reporting obligations. Elsewhere, Amazon has produced the glossiest-looking report, packaging its DMA disclosures in a graphic wrapper of photos, charts and pull-quotes — for a distractingly ‘easy to skim’ business brochure vibe.

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