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Apple announces support for alternative app marketplaces, web browser engines in the EU with iOS 17.4

www.macstories.net Apple Details How It Plans to Comply with the EU’s Digital Markets Act

Today, Apple announced how it intends to comply with the Digital Markets Act (DMA), which the European Commission says applies to the App Store. There are a lot of details to cover, but in summary, radical change is coming to the EU App Store, but only in the EU. Let’s take a look at how

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Apple announces support for alternative app marketplaces, web browser engines in the EU with iOS 17.4
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Apple announces support for alternative app marketplaces, web browser engines in the EU with iOS 17.4

www.macstories.net /news/apple-details-how-it-plans-to-comply-with-the-eus-digital-markets-act/

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Apple announces support for alternative app marketplaces, web browser engines in the EU with iOS 17.4

www.macstories.net /news/apple-details-how-it-plans-to-comply-with-the-eus-digital-markets-act/

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Great, excited for more chromium browsers 🙄
- Can’t wait for garbage electron style apps to start showing up…

So Apple still wants to have the power to reject apps from third party app stores.
Curious if that will pass the EUs "Gatekeeper Law", when they explicitly want to stay the gatekeeper, even if unpaid.
- I think this is probably partially a way of indemnifying themselves against any potential problems that users have will malware. There are two outcomes:
  Apple retains gatekeeper prerogative - keeps an eye on any software too problematic
  Brussels says 'No', and Apple can subsequently say 'well we wanted to prevent malware but the EU told us we can't so sorry your phone was compromised, but you are on your own'.
- It's just a signing process to verify that it comes from the actual dev from what it sounds like

As a Brit, this gives me yet another reason to wish unending cramps on the shitcunts behind Brexit.
- The real cunt here is Apple...
  
  Yep. But let’s not detract from the shithouses that brought us Brexit.

I wonder if citizens outside of the EU can access this. Would love a proper Firefox on my iPhone.
- Write to your mp or congress representative.

I wonder if this will have any real effect. Allowing other browser engines only in the EU means the developers would need to create browsers specifically for this market and who would do that?

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