Meta and Microsoft ask EU to reject Apple's new app store terms
Meta and Microsoft ask EU to reject Apple's new app store terms
Apple’s new app store terms have come under fire for what many are describing as ‘malicious compliance’ with the EU’s...
Sounds like a civil matter, Deal with your own problems and sue them like you would anyone else.
It's lobbying but they're right. It's not just their problem but consumers problem too. I hope EU handles this so that intent of the law prevails.
Exactly, Apples iron grip needs to be loosened
The DMA does not protect consumers. It protects other companies that sell products within the gatekeeper's market.
Both Meta and Microsoft have apps on iPhone and therefore the DMA is designed to protect those two companies. If they're not happy with the level of protection, they should absolutely tell the EU.
It’s 100% not a consumer problem. No one cares what store they buy apps from just that the apps are vetted. Thats all Apple cared about. They don’t want total freedom to side load.
This is corporate greed. But it’s cute you think they are gunning for the consumer lol.
It's not a civil matter. The Digital Markets Act requires the EU to monitor competition and that means they will rely on input from other competitors in the same space. The DMA gives the EU powers that no private company has including the ability to issue specific directives to individual companies.
Those directives could range from "remove this clause from you app store contract" to "stop selling phones in Europe". No civil court case is ever going to have an outcome like that.
I can't wait for the day when all it takes to install an app on an iPhone is to click a link and you're done!
That way all it will take to infect my parents' phones with malware capable of scraping copious amounts of my data will be normal phone usage that Apple can't protect against!
And now that AI is capable of simulating voices reasonably well, a phone call from mom asking for sensitive information can be done through her phone by anyone!
You know there are other options between "instantly installing by clicking a link" and not being able to install anything.
Such as the option that is trying to be killed in this post.
But let's be real, Epic does not want those other options and neither do the Android-using Apple-bad commenters on here and reddit.
They want to side load unsigned code that didn't go through any Apple validation without going through the App store at all.
That way all it will take to infect my parents’ phones with malware capable of scraping copious amounts of my data will be normal phone usage that Apple can’t protect against!
Um... What? iPhone apps run in a sandbox. They can't access anything. They can't even run at all unless the user launches the app or interacts with a notification. Background running is strictly limited to things like music playback with very few exceptions (exceptions which are taken away if the user never launches the app).
And for the record, I don't own an android phone and never have.
...do you know what enforces all of that?
The App store...
Specifically it limits what APIs can and can't be used by apps and forces the use of entitlements to access features of the hardware.
Downvote if you want, but entitelements are part of the code signing process which this article is trying to avoid. And jailbroken apps already don't have the protections you're talking about.
It's not uncommon for people to datamine not public API all over Apple's frameworks and the only thing preventing the usage is App Store policies and static analysis tools.