Comment on Apple is placing warnings on EU apps that don’t use App Store payments
BrikoX@lemmy.zip 2 days agoI wouldn’t be surprised if some of those apps are using payment processors outside the EU to circumvent this.
You misunderstod. It’s based on the country they are operating in (not where they are based). If they take payments from EU citizens, they are bound by EU law.
Heathcliff@lemm.ee 2 days ago
So theoretically that sounds great, but practically it would have to be Apple to kick those apps from the platform if the apps are not abiding European law, or how does that work?
BrikoX@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
If the app developer uses non-Apple payment processor, those refunds would be handled by that payment processor. The potencial app removal would be handled by Apple or alternative store it’s installed from.
Heathcliff@lemm.ee 2 days ago
Yet still, is it then so wrong to warn a user beforehand that the payment processor isn’t going to be Apple? I’m not sure what your idea is that the EU should do here? No warning from anyone seems to be a recipe for scamming.
BrikoX@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
It implies that Apple payment system is the only “private and secure payment system”. Which is false, as as we covered every single payment processor operating in the EU (as in allowing to take payments from UE citizens) is private and secure as that’s a requirement for them to even be able to operate in the first place.
If the warning was “App uses external payment processor”. That would have been a different story, no?
HK65@sopuli.xyz 2 days ago
No it wouldn’t need to be Apple.
If a payment processor won’t comply, you can ask for a chargeback at your bank, and if it keeps happening, the payment processor can be blocked from accepting EU payments at all.
AcesFullOfKings@feddit.uk 2 days ago
Heathcliff@lemm.ee 2 days ago
What you’ve quoted isn’t what I asked.
loki@piefed.social 2 days ago
It's always fun to see cult members break down when they have no arguments and call everyone else crazy...