Comment on EU regulators question Apple after it blocks Epic Games app store
paraphrand@lemmy.world 3 months agoI think Apple still manages third party app stores too. And there will be rules. If this was totally without rules or terms, then it would just mean it’s wide open. It wouldn’t mean there was a new alternative App Store system.
justJanne@startrek.website 3 months ago
It being totally without rules or terms is exactly what the EU demanded.
EarMaster@lemmy.world 3 months ago
That is just not true. The DMA asks for bans on self-favoritism, regulations on data use and data interoperability to bans on discrimination and over all fair conditions. This far from without rules or terms.
paraphrand@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Interesting. So the stuff about a letter of credit or the App Store download number requirements are both not being enforced?
Sandboxing isn’t a requirement for apps or anything else?
I can just make a side loading App Store and invent new app types and software types for iOS and install them how ever I like as an App Store owner?
justJanne@startrek.website 3 months ago
The EU demands that alternative app stores or individual users can do exactly that.
Apple disagrees.
That’s precisely why this is back in court.
paraphrand@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I see. I didn’t realize they were demanding that it goes so deep as to demand the ability to replace the system software.