Apple @lemmy.world misk @sopuli.xyz 8 mo. ago

Apple to allow iOS app downloads direct from websites in the EU [but not really]

www.theverge.com Apple to allow iOS app downloads direct from websites in the EU

Apple is policing this new feature closely.

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They’ll also need to agree to a number of key undertakings, as outlined by Apple:

Be enrolled in the Apple Developer Program as an organization incorporated, domiciled, and or registered in the EU (or have a subsidiary legal entity incorporated, domiciled, and or registered in the EU that’s listed in App Store Connect). The location associated with your legal entity is listed in your Apple Developer account.

Be a member of good standing in the Apple Developer Program for two continuous years or more, and have an app that had more than one million first annual installs on iOS in the EU in the prior calendar year.

Only offer apps from your developer account.

Be responsive to communications from Apple regarding your apps distributed through Web Distribution, particularly regarding any fraudulent, malicious, or illegal behavior, or anything else that Apple believes impacts the safety, security, or privacy of users.

Publish transparent data collection policies and offer users control over how their data is collected and used.

Follow applicable laws of the jurisdictions where you operate (for example, the Digital Services Act, the General Data Protection Regulation, and consumer protection laws).

Be responsible for handling governmental and other requests to take down listings of apps

What a joke.
- That second reason is exactly the opposite of what we needed. Fucking Apple, why can't they just do it like in macOS and allow everything by default unless blacklisted as malware? Damn.
  
  It’s called playing it safe. Bad actors won’t be able to meet the standard and so users will never see their garbageware.
  
  Totally fine by me.
  
  Because a phone is not a computer. if you download MacKepper or whatever to your iPhone and it runs constantly in the background your phone will die in 2 hours, you’ll be SOL if you need to call 911 and that will publicly be apples fault.
- That second one is the exact reason they disabled and reinstated Epic. It reset the two year clock on “good standing”
  
  Except for the fact that the account was reinstated after mere days than it was opened
- I would like to know who on which team is responsible for these rules at Apple
Sounds like the EU needs to get a bigger stick.
- Sounds like people who don’t like it would be happier on android. Oh well.
I still don‘t see how these rules allow an fdroid like App Store. That is imo, what is really needed.

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