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Agree, that this sounds pretty consumer-unfriendly on the surface. But I think the law is fascinating, because of how effective it (might) be in limiting monopolies. Applying the same law to online advertisement or search engine market share would probably be a benefit for the consumers.

How?! After reaching 100 million searches in a month, Google should stop serving search queries? How weird would that be?

If you’ve already reached your 30% cap, what incentive do you have to improve your service?

>If you’ve already reached your 30% cap, what incentive do you have to improve your service?

By having to compete with other services who are trying to get your share?

This doesn’t sound very enforceable. Say users flock to WhatsApp. “Sorry, we can’t process your payment because people like you aren’t using competitor services enough. Please try again next month.” ???

I'd assume they'd just have to throttle users.

Couldn’t they process the payment on someone else’s rails?

I would prefer opening a different app to complete the payment than living in a society where payment space is completely dominated by one company