"Gatekeeper" in the Digital Markets Act: Are Bing and iMessage too small to be labelled as gatekeepers ?

> #Apple and #Microsoft want to convince the EU Commission that the messenger #iOS and the search engine #Bing are not popular enough to be defined as "#gatekeepers" under the rules of the new Digital Market Act (#DMA). The Financial Times reports this shortly before the list of the #EU Commission is published.
https://www.heise.de/news/Gatekeeper-im-Digital-Markets-Act-Bing-und-iMessage-zu-klein-fuer-Label-9294702.html #socialmedia

The companies that have said they qualify as "#gatekeepers" under the #EU law are Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, ByteDance, Meta, Microsoft, and Samsung. Gatekeepers are companies with an annual turnover in Europe of at least €7.5 billion (among a few other requirements)

They are prohibited from favoring their own services over rivals and from locking users into their ecosystem. They must allow 3rd parties to interoperate in their ecosystem. Compliance begins in #2024.