People don’t realize this. This is probably the end of any quality indie developer apps.
Maybe you haven’t been on the App Store lately, but it’s a wasteland of ad-supported shit and subscription garbage. It has been many years since we’ve been able to mock Android for their poor quality apps.
Further, people can already easily pirate iOS apps on their iPhone. I don’t see this change moving the needle much.
No, competing stores will be a full native app, just as the Digital Markets Act requires.
It is yet to be seen what competitors will charge, however one thing is a universal constant: competition usually brings prices down. Apple makes enormous profits on that 30%. This leaves from for competitors to charge much less and still earn enormous profits.
As for Apple charging a yearly fee to developers, the DMA explicitly prevents that.
Depends how much you care about your data and what your backup plan is. Mine is unRAID with two parity drives, meaning I can lose two drives in the NAS without losing any data. Of course my house might burn down so I back up the REALLY important stuff to the cloud as well. Given this I don’t care about consumer grade SMR drives, so I buy the cheapest.
Are you forgetting that Australia isn’t Somalia? They have laws and regulations around competition. If Apple wants to do business in Australia they have to follow the law. “But I don’t want to!” isn’t a good argument.
I really think Apple screwed the pooch on this one. They had a decade to open up iOS in a more controlled way. They did the opposite, locking out apps on competitive grounds, opening themselves up for obvious antitrust action. Now the decision is going to be out of their hands around the world, and the legislation is far more onerous.
As an EU citizen I cannot WAIT for the DMA to come into effect. I’m genuinely excited to see all the interesting new apps and the creativity which will be allowed to flourish again on the platform.
Good lord I hesitate to think of the average iPhone user who hears about this, tries it, and winds up with literal vermin and spiders cascading out of it like the masks in Halloween 3.
How the fuck would one literally have vermin and spiders “cascading” out of their iPhone if they installed an application outside the App Store? Like how would that even work? Some dude drives out to your house and objects spider eggs into the phone? The physics alone don’t make any sense.
Apple’s new legal case takes issue with specific decisions taken by the European Commission under the DMA, but the exact details of the challenge have not yet been publicized. The case is expected to include an argument against the App Store being included on the EU’s list of gatekeeper platforms, which requires app sideloading to be an option to allow users to avoid the App Store if they wish.
This is not correct. Apple has so far not disputed iOS being classed as a core platform service. This means they are not disputing the requirement to open up iOS for competing app stores. However they have disputes the App Store becoming a core platform service. This would place additional requirements on the App Store around which applications they accept and decline, prominence of their own applications relative to competitors, and a host of others like marketing transparency.
This is Apple throwing as much as they can at the wall to see what sticks.
Yeah the first time someone dies because they haven’t paid their Apple subscription will look very bad.
FRAND doesn’t apply here. Even if it did, FRAND would require Apple grant access to iOS. The opposite of what you’re claiming. I think the EU knows a little bit more about their laws than you do.