Britain's Antitrust Regulator Says Apple, Google Hold 'Vise-Like Grip'

Apple Inc. and Alphabet Inc.’s Google hold a “vise-like grip” over how people use mobile devices, Britain’s antitrust regulator said, adding it was assessing whether to try to loosen what it said was their control over smartphone ecosystems. The preliminary report is among several, nonbinding research efforts by the U.K. and other antitrust regulators in Europe into competition in the tech industry.