Kay Jebelli
@kayjebelli.bsky.social
Computer engineer/competition lawyer; TCK; personal views expressed. Pro-abundance policy, working for @chamberofprogress.bsky.social
It's access to the benefits of a technology created exclusively for ones own use, through mandated government intervention, without remuneration.
November 29, 2025 at 2:25 PM
It's access to the benefits of a technology created exclusively for ones own use, through mandated government intervention, without remuneration.
The DMA disincentives Apple from releasing new features for its users because it would have to simultaneously develop and make available for free technologies to its rivals to keep them competitively equal.
November 29, 2025 at 9:01 AM
The DMA disincentives Apple from releasing new features for its users because it would have to simultaneously develop and make available for free technologies to its rivals to keep them competitively equal.
Couldn't possibly be the fault of immaculate regulations amiright.
November 28, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Couldn't possibly be the fault of immaculate regulations amiright.
Whether it is legal to force Apple to give up its property for the benefit of European rivals is a question currently before the Courts.
November 28, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Whether it is legal to force Apple to give up its property for the benefit of European rivals is a question currently before the Courts.
The short answer is that, yes, it has. We've done a study on this @progresschamber, it's unequivocal. Some services, like iphone mirroring, still aren't available. Various AI features and personalisations aren't available. There's more friction. thedigitalcurtain.eu/
November 28, 2025 at 11:38 PM
The DMA has become a flashpoint for European tech policy, and I fear that it is increasingly getting us further away from where we need to go.
It's become deeply political and divorced from practicalities.
And in the end, it's European users who are losing out.
It's become deeply political and divorced from practicalities.
And in the end, it's European users who are losing out.
November 28, 2025 at 7:52 PM
The DMA has become a flashpoint for European tech policy, and I fear that it is increasingly getting us further away from where we need to go.
It's become deeply political and divorced from practicalities.
And in the end, it's European users who are losing out.
It's become deeply political and divorced from practicalities.
And in the end, it's European users who are losing out.
I want to live in a Europe where regulators take responsibility for their interventions and do their best to clear any legal uncertainty so that companies can launch and users get access to the best services and technologies alongside their international counterparts.
November 28, 2025 at 7:52 PM
I want to live in a Europe where regulators take responsibility for their interventions and do their best to clear any legal uncertainty so that companies can launch and users get access to the best services and technologies alongside their international counterparts.
I want to live in a Europe that has the ambition and determination to build tech giants not off the back of foreign companies, but through creating a regulatory environment that enables European founders to scale and grow across a single market and then fairly compete globally.
November 28, 2025 at 7:52 PM
I want to live in a Europe that has the ambition and determination to build tech giants not off the back of foreign companies, but through creating a regulatory environment that enables European founders to scale and grow across a single market and then fairly compete globally.
Maybe I'm just misunderstanding this, or it was a hastily written reply to MEPs, or there's some important context that I'm overlooking. But on its face, I think it's a bad sign for DMA enforcement, and why we need a course correction.
November 28, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Maybe I'm just misunderstanding this, or it was a hastily written reply to MEPs, or there's some important context that I'm overlooking. But on its face, I think it's a bad sign for DMA enforcement, and why we need a course correction.
No wonder the US administration objects. Anyone would.
The EU would, if the same were being applied to EU companies abroad.
The EU would, if the same were being applied to EU companies abroad.
November 28, 2025 at 5:44 PM
No wonder the US administration objects. Anyone would.
The EU would, if the same were being applied to EU companies abroad.
The EU would, if the same were being applied to EU companies abroad.
The premise is that EC needs to step in to prevent gatekeepers from "withholding" their property for the benefit of European innovators.
November 28, 2025 at 5:44 PM
The premise is that EC needs to step in to prevent gatekeepers from "withholding" their property for the benefit of European innovators.
The premise is that European innovators can't innovate without a regulatory helping hand, forcing technology to be transferred for their benefit, building on foreign ecosystems, with Government backing.
November 28, 2025 at 5:44 PM
The premise is that European innovators can't innovate without a regulatory helping hand, forcing technology to be transferred for their benefit, building on foreign ecosystems, with Government backing.
The premise of Europe's industrial policy here is to use the regulatory tool of the DMA to force US companies to create interoperability solutions so European companies can free-ride on those innovations.
That anything else is "unfair"
That anything else is "unfair"
November 28, 2025 at 5:44 PM
The premise of Europe's industrial policy here is to use the regulatory tool of the DMA to force US companies to create interoperability solutions so European companies can free-ride on those innovations.
That anything else is "unfair"
That anything else is "unfair"
The statement actually explains the EC's position quite clearly, and the first time I've seen it put like this in black and white. www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/docum...
November 28, 2025 at 5:44 PM
The statement actually explains the EC's position quite clearly, and the first time I've seen it put like this in black and white. www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/docum...
But there's a problem here as well, and that's the implication of the second line from the EC.
In fact it's a bit underlying one of the main flaws of the DMA's logic, and why the US administration is in opposition.
In fact it's a bit underlying one of the main flaws of the DMA's logic, and why the US administration is in opposition.
November 28, 2025 at 5:44 PM
But there's a problem here as well, and that's the implication of the second line from the EC.
In fact it's a bit underlying one of the main flaws of the DMA's logic, and why the US administration is in opposition.
In fact it's a bit underlying one of the main flaws of the DMA's logic, and why the US administration is in opposition.
The EC needs to better own up to the DMA's role in negatively impacting European users.
But the silver lining is that the EC does appear to have acted quickly to help get live translations available in the EU through the interoperability mechanism.
But the silver lining is that the EC does appear to have acted quickly to help get live translations available in the EU through the interoperability mechanism.
November 28, 2025 at 5:44 PM
The EC needs to better own up to the DMA's role in negatively impacting European users.
But the silver lining is that the EC does appear to have acted quickly to help get live translations available in the EU through the interoperability mechanism.
But the silver lining is that the EC does appear to have acted quickly to help get live translations available in the EU through the interoperability mechanism.
Pressure from the US administration this week probably isn't helping the dynamic. bsky.app/profile/kay...
Kay Jebelli (@kayjebelli.bsky.social)
The EU's trade-woes are heating up this week, as US/EU negotiators quarrelled over some familiar issues left unresolved from the summer's trade deal.
The EU wants lower steel and aluminium tariffs, the US wants the EU to stop discriminating against US tech companies.
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November 28, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Pressure from the US administration this week probably isn't helping the dynamic. bsky.app/profile/kay...
The EC needs to grapple with tradeoffs if it wants to make things better. If it's publicly just blaming industry for negative effects, then it's hard to see how it will be able to make things better for European consumers.
For every harm, it will just say "gatekeepers' fault"
For every harm, it will just say "gatekeepers' fault"
November 28, 2025 at 5:44 PM
The EC needs to grapple with tradeoffs if it wants to make things better. If it's publicly just blaming industry for negative effects, then it's hard to see how it will be able to make things better for European consumers.
For every harm, it will just say "gatekeepers' fault"
For every harm, it will just say "gatekeepers' fault"
I've previously described this as one of those dangerous decision points that could make things worse. bsky.app/profile/kay...
Kay Jebelli (@kayjebelli.bsky.social)
It raises again the big dilemma the EC faces. Do they leave things as they are (bad for consumers and businesses), blame the gatekeeper (making things worse), or try to find a solution that preserves European's access to helpful technology?
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November 28, 2025 at 5:44 PM
I've previously described this as one of those dangerous decision points that could make things worse. bsky.app/profile/kay...
Of course the tech companies want to launch services to all their users as quickly as possible across the world.
blaming them for the EC's own failings in providing regulatory clarity in a timely fashion is a very bad outcome, for what it portends: abdication of responsibility.
blaming them for the EC's own failings in providing regulatory clarity in a timely fashion is a very bad outcome, for what it portends: abdication of responsibility.
November 28, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Of course the tech companies want to launch services to all their users as quickly as possible across the world.
blaming them for the EC's own failings in providing regulatory clarity in a timely fashion is a very bad outcome, for what it portends: abdication of responsibility.
blaming them for the EC's own failings in providing regulatory clarity in a timely fashion is a very bad outcome, for what it portends: abdication of responsibility.
This is a "stop hitting yourself" kinda moment
November 28, 2025 at 5:44 PM
This is a "stop hitting yourself" kinda moment
Second problem: despite this approval processes that companies need to go through in order to launch new services in Europe, the EC is blaming the tech companies for the delay. www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/docum...
November 28, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Second problem: despite this approval processes that companies need to go through in order to launch new services in Europe, the EC is blaming the tech companies for the delay. www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/docum...
Unfortunately, my DMA fears have come true.
November 28, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Unfortunately, my DMA fears have come true.
Nearly 5 years ago I warned that the DMA could end up installed the European Commission as the biggest roadblock to innovation in Europe, that it would be deciding, on a feature by feature basis, what could and couldn't be released by big tech companies. project-disco.org/competition...
November 28, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Nearly 5 years ago I warned that the DMA could end up installed the European Commission as the biggest roadblock to innovation in Europe, that it would be deciding, on a feature by feature basis, what could and couldn't be released by big tech companies. project-disco.org/competition...
Why is that bad? Because it shows how much the EC is now in control of product development and product launches in Europe.
Want to launch new features? That's at the mercy of DMA enforcers in Brussels. Try doing it around the holidays? Build that into your development timeline.
Want to launch new features? That's at the mercy of DMA enforcers in Brussels. Try doing it around the holidays? Build that into your development timeline.
November 28, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Why is that bad? Because it shows how much the EC is now in control of product development and product launches in Europe.
Want to launch new features? That's at the mercy of DMA enforcers in Brussels. Try doing it around the holidays? Build that into your development timeline.
Want to launch new features? That's at the mercy of DMA enforcers in Brussels. Try doing it around the holidays? Build that into your development timeline.