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Agreed. It seems like a great way to turn your web browser into an abstraction of an operating system.
but this is what apple originally intended, just phones weren't powerful enough at the time. later firefoxOS did exactly that. and it worked well. its only weak part was the lack of apps in the market.
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Sounds like the slowest, most bloated way possible to design a calculator that runs on a phone.
Agreed. It seems like a great way to turn your web browser into an abstraction of an operating system.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28323688 Linking this here from the other thread, because the above comment cites the actual court documents, which clear up a lot of confusion I'm seeing on this thread. Apple's concession only applies to communications outside of the app using contact information obtained outside of the app . (Which, yes, was somehow disallowed before.) If your user signed up through the app? To…
I guess epic games just won?
If this one becomes official, can Epic back to App Store? I guess no, since it will be a precedent for other escalations.
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Not exactly. Developers were free to take outside payments for apps. Developers were forbidden from linking or talking about this from within the app. On their on website was OK. This change lets developers tell their customer about outside payments from within the app. From what I gather, apps are still required to accept Apple Pay if they offer any type of in-app purchase. And apps that do not work without an outsi…
Based on the news release from Apple it looks like developers still aren't allowed to link to this from inside the app. It only allows for out of app communications (like email)?
That's not new.
There is already legislation in process that would do a hell of a lot more than this change including giving vendors the ability to sell entirely via their own store. https://www.cnbc.com/2021/08/11/bipartisan-bill-targets-appl... If lawmakers are already going to give you 200% of what you originally asked for why on earth would you settle for half?
That’s assuming it passes at all. A bill must get actually passed by both houses of congress and signed into law by the president. Until then, it’s vaporware.
And then, once a bill is passed, someone has to enforce it, and that enforcement likely has to work its way through the court system.