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Apple Details How It Plans to Comply with the EU’s Digital Markets Act
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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

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/21906358

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

Updated the link to a better source that gives a more detailed overview.

  • TheYang@lemmy.world
    141·
    10 months ago

    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.

    • HeartyBeast@kbin.social
      5·
      10 months ago

      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’.
    • Lime66@lemmy.world
      1·
      9 months ago

      It’s just a signing process to verify that it comes from the actual dev from what it sounds like