@EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu The Digital Markets Act is a nice idea but it's ignoring how these platforms became so powerful. The problem is that other big entities use them as their sole (or primary) means of communication. How about defining a set of rules that apply to: All governmentsAll companies over a certain EU turnover.All companies providing essential services (e.g. banking, utilities). Where the rules are, by the end of 2027: They may not require customers to create an account or share data with a third party to communicate with them.If they distribute an application for any platform, they must do so via two independent channels.Applications must not depend on anything other than the core platform. Where 'independent' means: does not depend on any approvals from the same vendor. This would mean that no big organisation in these places would be able to ship apps via the Apple App Store. None of them would be able to ship Android apps that depended on Google Play Services and none of them would be able to ship Android apps at all with Google's proposed lock down mechanism. And then, suddenly, you have compliance departments in a bunch of companies with deep pockets lobbying Google and Apple to provide an alternative mechanism for distribution. Note: These are exactly the same as the rules I proposed 20 years ago. If they had been enacted back then, I suspect the DMA would not have been necessary.