Does that mean I can get a 3rd party eShop on my Nintendo Switch? 😆
Japan moves to ban Google, Apple from blocking app store competitors
Submitted 5 weeks ago by Pro@programming.dev to technology@lemmy.world
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psyc@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
FlexibleToast@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Ha, that would be excellent. Don’t forget Sony and PlayStation.
Scrollone@feddit.it 5 weeks ago
Haha yeah sure. That will never happen.
kurcatovium@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
Yes you can! And Nintendo will then sue your ass off :-D
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
Me: but I’m completely following the law!
Nintendo: OK. Your point?
mrbubblesort@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
I wish, but this seems specifically aimed at smartphones only. However, this could open the door for Nintendo to make their own eshop for Android or Apple, and I suspect that’s what the gov is going for because it would directly benefit Japanese companies at the expense of foreign ones.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
Why would Nintendo want a shop on Android and Apple? They don’t own those platforms…
ZephyrXero@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Now do it for game consoles
piyuv@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Yes! It’s good they’re doing this. It would be better if they weren’t letting Nintendo brick homebrewed consoles.
arararagi@ani.social 5 weeks ago
Japan was the first one to prohibit tinkering with game saves and consoles, they aren’t going to revert it now.
Siegfried@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Yakuza is heading your way
gradual@lemmings.world 5 weeks ago
Praise be.
oce@jlai.lu 5 weeks ago
If there’s one thing Japan loves, it is economical competition. There are like 40 different ways to pay at a shop, it’s absurd.
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phoenixz@lemmy.ca 5 weeks ago
That’s not absurd, that’s awesome
ripcord@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
It can be both!
Zaphod@discuss.tchncs.de 5 weeks ago
Absurdly awesome!
kurcatovium@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
And yet everyone will pay with cash.
asbestos@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
based
k0e3@lemmy.ca 5 weeks ago
This used to be the case 15 years ago, but unless you go to some tiny independently owned place, you can usually pay with credit card or suica. If not, then with one of those QR code payment options. I rarely carry cash anymore.
WalnutLum@lemmy.ml 5 weeks ago
Nah you can’t even use cash in a lot of post offices now.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
Wow, all of that and no crypto. That’s impressive.
semperverus@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Japan is permanently in the '90s (and I love it).
Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
I can’t pay with interpretive dance?! I shall not be frequenting this establishment. Good day to you.
SnortsGarlicPowder@lemmy.zip 5 weeks ago
There is a DDR cabinet in the arcade that will turn your Dance into Tickets which are accepted.
sadTruth@lemmy.hogru.ch 5 weeks ago
Innovation and competition at it’s peak: You get to choose the color of your noose.
But (presumably) no cash or crypto because someone has to take a 3% cut.
goldenquetzal@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Surprisingly a lot of Japan is cash only. Stores like this also have cash inserts built in.
Matriks404@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
That’s hardly a bad thing unless you can’t use the most common way (e.g. paying by credit/debit card) in shops.
Eggyhead@lemmings.world 5 weeks ago
That Q+ looking one near the bottom left is how Apple Pay came to be in Japan.
rottingleaf@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
That’s probably because toxic corporate culture (we-ell, one can sometimes find contributions of heroes from Japan into FOSS projects, so maybe not so toxic, especially when you look at NetBSD) they already have, so they simply can’t afford breaking market laws, not in the slightest.
The rest think they can, which is wrong.
The economic stagnation in numbers is regrettable, though. I would prefer countries like Japan to grow (not on the map, I mean playing tall). And cultures.
Toes@ani.social 5 weeks ago
With that many options, it’s your bad if the card doesn’t work. Wow haha
Sat@lemmynsfw.com 5 weeks ago
If only that worked on dlsite
MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 5 weeks ago
Is there some science to what facilitates common standards vs. dotzens of islands? Convenience of the user is only one factor (if at all), see printers.
pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 weeks ago
no klarna… ABSOLUTE W