In the first high-profile business decision resulting from the EU’s new Digital Markets Act (DMA), Apple announced last week that it was opening several of its tightly guarded gateways to the Internet to competitors. The changes include the ability for app developers to distribute them outside Apple’s own app store and to let users surf the web with browsers not based on Apple’s Webkit engine, which powers Safari. Also, Apple Pay will no longer be the only way of making payments with the brand’s devices. Apple is making these changes in the European Union only, along with new safeguards the…

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