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I think this third party appstore is an existential threat to apple in the sense that no one jailbreaks there iphone, because they need legit apps, but if the EU allows third party apps stores, then Americans could start jailbreaking their phones and just using third party app stores.
How is that an existential threat to apple though? Don't they profit from selling the physical phones?
Though I’m happy to see the 3rd party apps - I really don’t get why people even buy apple devices if they want to side load or do other such things. In terms of camera quality, battery life, or any single criterion it’s not like apple devices are the best anyway. As a side note - I really don’t understand the logic that leaves gaming consoles exempt. As a second side note - how is apple even determining if you are an…
That's Apple's argument, but it's bs. It's like Microsoft selling you Windows with ads all over the place and then when you complain they say: "I don't understand why you buy Windows if you don't want to see ads, there are other options w/o ads."
This has a super simple solution that would break even Apple. Change the law so that any device sold must comply with the DMA for all EU citizens, regardless of domicile. Thus, any company that denies a EU citizen under the DMA, even if they live in the US, shall be considered noncomplaint. Also, to make sure no tricks are used, make sure to specify that it is illegal to require citizenship verification for DMA right…
This feels like a malicious version of the fair usage exceptions to the EU's mobile phone roaming regulations. I hope the EU tightens up the rules to prevent this as these does not seem to be any justification for this, crossing a border doesn't suddenly add additional cost to Apple.
As someone who used to be in the field of public relations before starting a career in software - I don't understand why they are doing this. Surely they realise that this stuff is going to end up on mainstream media and damage their image? EDIT: I get what people are saying about the App Store fees but reputational damage does cost money, possibly quite a lot.
The idea being, I could travel to the EU (or just buy an EU iPhone), install a 3rd party App Store + apps, then happily use a non-Appstore iPhone outside the EU.
I don't particularly think this "infection" a big risk, but Apple sure seems to.
Though I’m happy to see the 3rd party apps - I really don’t get why people even buy apple devices if they want to side load or do other such things. In terms of camera quality, battery life, or any single criterion it’s not like apple devices are the best anyway. As a side note - I really don’t understand the logic that leaves gaming consoles exempt. As a second side note - how is apple even determining if you are an…
> I really don’t get why people even buy apple devices if they want to side load or do other such things. That's Apple's argument, but it's bs. It's like Microsoft selling you Windows with ads all over the place and then when you complain they say: "I don't understand why you buy Windows if you don't want to see ads, there are other options w/o ads."
Apple will really bend over backwards to screw their customers, even if they are legally bound to. What is the point in making it this complicated? Hope we find a way around this technical limitation, although knowing Apple it isn’t going to be easy.
The point is that it’s half their bottom line
Isn’t Apple tracking your location like this a gdpr violation even if they don’t store the results?
This is very interesting because there’s really no reason for this limitation to exist with regards to EU users. The only reason I can see for this is that Apple knows their rules are so unpopular that users from the rest of the world might go as far as travel abroad or start trafficking devices to get around them.
Are they? I know developers don’t like the rules, but I don’t know a lot of iPhone owners who feel particularly stifled by them. If they did, presumably they’d just buy an Android phone?