Yes plz
apple will probably make more subscriptions for their App Store much like they did for gaming.
I don’t understand how people think this is a win?! I DO NOTV want to download 7 different app stores to get all the apps I want. Look at the state of Windows gaming for inference. Got more launchers than games ffs, can’t even keep track anymore.
Yeah, in the end, people will use what they want to use. I’d very much doubt that in the end, it is going to be the profit centre that all the companies hankering for it think it is.
I mean, the eu tried it with browsers. For five years, they got Microsoft to display a browser choice when you install windows. Perhaps hoping that their homegrown browser would be the choice of Europeans.
In the end, the one that benefitted is Google with Chrome. Opera, the original browser that filed the anti-trust case in the first place and Mozilla who joined later, both lost out, and currently only held around 3% and 5% of the market share in the EU.
3rd party app stores are screaming porn, scam and low quality apps to me. I‘d stick with the Apple app store.
I just want sideloading. Plz EU
Click-bait headline is click-bait, Apple has admitted no such thing.
That’ll be horrible. Right now I can trust the App Store without question.
While I’m halfway sure Meta will force Facebook, FB Messenger, Instagram, and Whatsapp to only be downloadable through some exclusive Meta App Store, you won’t be forced to use those third-party stores.
So will Amazon, so will Google, so will Microsoft so will most retailers. So yes you will be forced.
You shouldn’t blindly trust the App Store. The review process isn’t perfect and scam apps can find their way into the App Store. Here’s one example: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/02/pig-butchering-scam-apps-sneak-into-apples-app-store-and-google-play/
Yeah?
And I…am Iron Man. Snaps
Oh cool, I wonder if someone will port windowserver to iPad and make it more macOS like.
Honestly even so I’m not gonna migrate to other dodgy AppStore.
I’m not buying it. Apple wants to be in control of EVERYTHING and doesn’t want to actually compete. I’m all for giving options and freedom to the consumer, user and developers.
Third party app stores have their uses. Their are some app stores like F-Droid that only allow free open-sourced apps, some 3rd party app stores won’t have as tight as rules as Apple app store and could let devs offer their own payment structure in-app which the Apple app store does not allow. Or some 3rd party app stores may not allow or have to require Apple’s proprietary frameworks in order for the app to function. This is similar to Aurora store for Android.
I left Apple iPhone the first time since iPhone 1. I need two things, easy side loading and one physical SIM slot and at least 1 eSim. It looks like the physical SIM is not coming back but side loading will bring me back.
I’m curious, why do you need sideloading?
when they allow sideloading you can buy iPhone outside America, we have SIM cards.
Big W
why can’t we vote against it?
Dude, why defend the 1T dollar company?
If Apple wants to they’ll just enable that on European iPhones which are physically different since long ago, and they already comply with other governments like China, heck you cannot disable the camera shutter sound in Japanese IPhones, because that’s their law.
If euro iphone fails, then good, just then they’ll think of retiring the business from that region not just because of this law.