Regulators are increasingly hostile to app store owners who require apps to funnel payments through the store owner’s payment system and pay a hefty commission for the privilege.  Apple has received most of the unwanted attention, but Google is in regulators’ sights as well.  Google has responded with a pilot program to allow third-party billing in Android apps.  It just expanded the pilot to include the U.S., European Union, and other regions.

No-code and low-code technologies are often described as enabling business users to do work that would otherwise require support from professional software developers.  But, at least according to this DuploCloud report, the professionals have widely adopted no/low-code for themselves: 71% are already using them and most of the others plan to.  Compliance and security are the biggest benefits.

Preliminary findings by the European Commission state that Apple and Google are in violation of the EU’s Digital Markets Act. Among the findings, Google Search is accused of prioritizing Google’s own products and services in results; Apple is instructed to improve interoperability between iOS and third-party devices. The companies now have an opportunity to respond.