@article{64be57bb9305402c957ae1c0d71a2c49,
title = "App stores, antitrust and their links to net neutrality: a review of the European policy and academic debate leading to the EU Digital Markets Act",
abstract = "Google and Apple{\textquoteright}s smartphone and tablet {\textquoteleft}app{\textquoteright} stores are facing significant antitrust scrutiny in Europe, culminating in enforcement action by the European Commission and specific obligations in the new EU Digital Markets Act. In a field previously dominated by US law and jurisprudence, we review the main European antitrust-related evidence and policy arguments for and against such app store regulation. We further show how this discourse is linked to the heavily-contested policy area of network neutrality.",
keywords = "Antitrust, App Store, Digital Markets Act, European Union, Platform regulation",
author = "Marsden, {Christopher T.} and Ian Brown",
note = "Funding Information: Published: 17 January 2023 Received: 24 December 2021 Accepted: 8 April 2022 Funding: The authors were supported by funding for this research from the International University of Japan{\textquoteright}s Centre for Global Communications, where they are both fellows. Competing Interests: The author has declared that no competing interests exist that have influenced the text. Licence: This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (Germany) which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/de/deed.en Copyright remains with the author(s). Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2023, Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society. All rights reserved.",
year = "2023",
doi = "10.14763/2023.1.1676",
language = "English",
volume = "12",
journal = "Internet Policy Review",
issn = "2197-6775",
publisher = "Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society",
number = "1",
}