About to start! #ECNDMA 
The train between Rome and the airport where the idea for this conference emerged is called Leonardo Express #brilliantideatrain
Second time I see @vestager live, first time was at the 2019 special advisors conference - thinking of Heike (met her on train back to the airport with her and discussed ecosystems)
"Casually call contestability" - not like economists define it, of course
This is the 6th non-compliance procedure - love the reference to compliance by design BTW
Also: first preliminary findings - due to Apple's non-compliance with the anti-steering rule - anything else 😉? Now we understand a bit better Friday's rather "desperate" announcent
Anything about 102 draft Guidelines?
No "compliance stamp" - if you comply with the DMA, you don't get a non-compliance decision
"I'm surprised that we have those non-compliance cases" @vestager - compliance should be a badge of honour also to gatekeepers
@vestager Second question about the alleged "reverse Brussels effects" - not really, says @Vestager - what happened with regard to AI might raise a big Q mark for the rest of the world
@vestager DMA Zeitgeist 😊
@vestager "We have no reservation to go to structural remedies"
@vestager "By sending preliminary findings, the Commission informs Apple of its preliminary view that the company is in breach of the DMA" ec.europa.eu/commission/pre…
@vestager "Beta testing" - testing compliance, but the Commission isn't the "developer" - not dictating how you do it
@vestager [Well, and this is me ;-) - Guidelines are also part of the DMA's toolkit]
@vestager The first two #DMAfans on Plenary I are the European @Spotify and @GetyourGuide [as an inspiring tourist guide when I retire, please the latter behave fairly also once you, as you wish, become a champion/gatekeeper]
Quite a lot of DMA groupies and deluded academics in the room today, as Cristina Caffarra would call us 😉
Chief @Meta policy person turned MEP enthusiastic about interoperability - great @1Br0wn
@vestager @Spotify @GetYourGuide [Oops - inspired by Italian/European heritage and aspiring to making it better known to tourists visiting us]
Google Travel is already dead because of the DMA [but the "wall"]
@vestager @Spotify @GetYourGuide Positive effect of the DMA - interoperability by design (at the AI service design phase, taking security into account) great @1Br0wn
And the wonders of real-time data portability of search data - underdiscussed great DMA provision - bravo Ian
Let's not buy into the argument that Big Tech isn't "able" to do it securely, 🙏@GetYourGuide (again, "compliance by design")
As DMA groupies, our vision for the future of digital is much more compelling than walled gardens (as @GetYourGuide put it) and Margrethe raises her head from the crochet work to look...
@GetYourGuide Cloud gatekeepers not yet designated - and Margrethe raises her head again...
Further pebble in Ian's shoe: iMessage.
Walled garden one level up and makes us pay for it, doubts whether this is clever from Google's side @GetYourGuide - investigated by the DMADreamTeam already
Tragic choice you have to make here among all promising breakout sessions 😱 - mine operating systems, and in good company
Quite liked the idea of an app store for public-use apps (i-vote in Estonia on desktop was 51% already, if I understood correctly)
Not talking about Apple, for once
Can Estonia negotiate with gatekeepers on security etc? Nope.
OS gatekeepers' house rules - and leading oftentimes to culs de sac - as the French say
...house rules also restraining innovation? Well, yes (not making it into the pitch, as @vestager would put it)
@vestager Apple guy in the room asked what he thought - but said not allowed to comment - which is fair.
@vestager Open door policy by the Estonian NCA - formally invited if you've something to tell them and other Baltic NCAs too - wow the European NCA South is also well represented by the @CNMC_ES
@vestager @CNMC_ES Alternative OSs - yes, let's discuss it (contestability ++). What do we need for it? Standards?
@vestager @CNMC_ES [Killing that type of OS competition was exactly the purpose of Android's anti-forking provision, if you remember girls and boys]
Art. 5(7) DMA-need to develop standards ro comply with it? Similar discussion we had with regard to what became Art. 7 (I wonder what is been right now said in the parallel breakout session)
Great audience of seasoned technologists - standards are difficult, don't rely on the industry's good will if you want to see them
"So far, this is exactly what we wanted" @AutoriteitCM agreed! Only the penne al pesto were a bit disappointing 😊
Slide for your classes
Temu qualitatively designated/incipient gatekeeper (there's a DMA provision also for the latter - unfinished paper somewhere - network effects) 🤔?
CEO of Murena, talked about the need for standards also our breakout session - I still remember @vestager pronouncing the work "forking" during the Google Android press conference (I was moved)
Mozilla, there's (also a DMA podcast for that!)
https://twitter.com/ruppe_p/status/1804450856432967780
What do people want? Consumers' perspective, but in a rigged environment, where they have been trained/conditioned/patronized not to choose ("walled gardens") it's difficult to say, TBH
Not a business user representative, Vanessa @beuc (and also a podcast)
https://twitter.com/ruppe_p/status/1804450856432967780
"We have seen choice screens before" @mozilla - learning from the mistakes of the past - but also the importance of friction...
@mozilla The "taxi driver to the conference" anecdote: how many rides do you need before you have the right one ;-)?
@mozilla Vanessa - make consumer choices count (and the scandal of dark patterns, aren't they already broadly prohibited BTW?)
@mozilla Of course, if interoperability and other DMA provisions work as they should, we would see many more alternatives consumers can choose from (also emerging from private/public partnerships, possibly 🤔 ?)
@mozilla Educational role by public authorities, reaching out to consumers, says Vanessa. Indeed, gatekeepers agree! Not a taxi driver anedcote, but a "motor bike in Rome on my way to the Colosseum": seeing daily a huge billboard telling me that walled gardens are a safe, green paradise
@mozilla Love the surprise appearance by @Andreas_Schwab
Wrong, Cristina 😱 - We've not been on a trance, but working and researching - and this event should finally convince you otherwise. Now let's finally tackle also Art. 102! competitionwave.blogspot.com/2024/06/heike-…
Online advertising services breakout session next - of course, one question at this point would be whether we need ad hoc regulation for the whole sector (not a popular opinion, I know)
Advantages in terms of transparency? It's complicated.
Google and Meta not "very cooperative" (cough) - data not coming in a way which is useful to recipients
[At some point, standards mentioned here as well]
Also, beta testing of compliance by Meta and Google - as mentioned by @Vestager I think - not happening
@vestager Breaking up v. transparency. What could work better, was the question.
@vestager Fun fact, investor to one of the Panelists asking a question.
@vestager And in the end, yes, big changes ahead because of how search is actually changing due to GenAI & Co. (how did the parallel breakout session go, BTW?)
@vestager Interestingly, my Dutch relatives use tomtom as a verb - now keynote by the CEO
@vestager [IMHO: This keynote embodying the Dutch spirit has been a juwel - we don't like dealing with regulators, we enjoy a good competitive fight, BUT
- EU is falling behind in tech, we need to step forward and make noise
- national politicians don't seem to be much concerned]
- EU is falling behind in tech, we need to step forward and make noise
- national politicians don't seem to be much concerned]
Plug and play/combine services, is the DMA enough asks @alissacooper ?
The Mother and Father of this conference
Estonia was a surprise to me, great work!
Federation of business users interested in DMA compliance mentioned (even Adam Smith would agree with it, I guess) but also of Civil Society organisations, if I may - this came a bit short, we need another conference for that ;-)
Final on FSM presenting a EU big public spending/industrial policy plan in digital as a (not very palatable) alternative (CC's caricaturised "vision"?) - well, many shades of grey there (strategically, private/public partnerships, frameworks, etc.)
Ciao/heading for a 🍻
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