Europe Just Forced Google To Open Android To Every Competing Ai. And Gemini 3.5 Pro Missed Its Deadline For The Third Time This Week.
Two things happened this week that are worth paying attention to if you work in tech or run a business.
On July 16 the European Commission issued binding orders under the Digital Markets Act requiring Google to give rival AI assistants the same system-level Android access it reserves for Gemini. Right now if you install ChatGPT or Claude on an Android phone, you get an app. Gemini gets to hear a wake word, hold the home button, read your screen, and act inside other apps. That gap is now illegal in Europe. The changes roll out starting January 2027 for search data and July 2027 for Android features. Two billion phones, eventually forced open.
Meanwhile Gemini 3.5 Pro missed its third consecutive deadline. June came and went. Then July 17. Still not out. Every week it is absent, enterprises signing contracts for the second half of 2026 are defaulting to GPT-5.6 or Claude instead. Google announced this model publicly at I/O in May. Three missed deadlines is not a QA problem, it is a credibility problem.
The competitive window does not stay open indefinitely. The enterprises making platform decisions right now are not waiting.
What's your read on how the DMA changes actually play out in practice? Genuinely curious whether forced interoperability helps users or just adds compliance overhead.
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