Apple was just forced to crack open its App Store — but the changes are already being called ‘hot garbage’::Changes to how apps are distributed on iPhones should be welcomed by developers, but many are unhappy with some describing them as “hot garbage.”
Their malicious compliance and resentful behavior is bad advertisement in any case, both for app developers and for users. Yes, most people don’t care but I hope some will realize who they are dealing with.
While it would be nice to imagine this, the reality is that anyone who is part of the Apple walled-garden isn’t going to suddenly abandon it because of hypothetical functionality they never had previously anyway. And anyone who has resisted Apple this long… Well, there were probably other reasons driving that long before this.
I can’t imagine this having any material impact on marketshare or profit. It will take harsher regulatory action for anything to happen.
Have you seen the maximum penalty for this action? It’s pretty harsh.
“the Commission is also empowered to adopt additional remedies such as obliging a gatekeeper to sell a business or parts of it, or banning the gatekeeper from acquiring additional services related to the systemic non-compliance”
Imagine if they forced Apple to sell their iPhone business. The USA did that once when Ma Bell had a monopoly on phones.