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Japan moves to ban Google, Apple from blocking app store competitors

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Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨Pro@programming.dev⁩ to ⁨technology@lemmy.world⁩

https://english.kyodonews.net/news/2025/05/fc7a734d95ed-japan-moves-to-ban-google-apple-from-blocking-app-store-competitors.html

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  • oce@jlai.lu ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      That’s not absurd, that’s awesome

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      • ripcord@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        It can be both!

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      • Zaphod@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Absurdly awesome!

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    • kurcatovium@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      And yet everyone will pay with cash.

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      • asbestos@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        based

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      • k0e3@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

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      • WalnutLum@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Nah you can’t even use cash in a lot of post offices now.

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    • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Wow, all of that and no crypto. That’s impressive.

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      • semperverus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Japan is permanently in the '90s (and I love it).

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    • Reverendender@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I can’t pay with interpretive dance?! I shall not be frequenting this establishment. Good day to you.

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      • SnortsGarlicPowder@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        There is a DDR cabinet in the arcade that will turn your Dance into Tickets which are accepted.

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    • sadTruth@lemmy.hogru.ch ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

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      • goldenquetzal@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Surprisingly a lot of Japan is cash only. Stores like this also have cash inserts built in.

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    • Matriks404@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

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    • Eggyhead@lemmings.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      That Q+ looking one near the bottom left is how Apple Pay came to be in Japan.

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    • rottingleaf@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

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    • Toes@ani.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      With that many options, it’s your bad if the card doesn’t work. Wow haha

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    • Sat@lemmynsfw.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      If only that worked on dlsite

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    • MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

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    • pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      no klarna… ABSOLUTE W

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  • psyc@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Does that mean I can get a 3rd party eShop on my Nintendo Switch? 😆

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    • FlexibleToast@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Ha, that would be excellent. Don’t forget Sony and PlayStation.

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    • Scrollone@feddit.it ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Haha yeah sure. That will never happen.

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    • kurcatovium@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Yes you can! And Nintendo will then sue your ass off :-D

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      • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Me: but I’m completely following the law!

        Nintendo: OK. Your point?

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    • mrbubblesort@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

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      • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Why would Nintendo want a shop on Android and Apple? They don’t own those platforms…

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  • ZephyrXero@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Now do it for game consoles

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    • piyuv@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Yes! It’s good they’re doing this. It would be better if they weren’t letting Nintendo brick homebrewed consoles.

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      • arararagi@ani.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Japan was the first one to prohibit tinkering with game saves and consoles, they aren’t going to revert it now.

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    • Siegfried@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Yakuza is heading your way

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  • gradual@lemmings.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Praise be.

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