Apple opens up iOS to alternative app stores in the EU
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- Anonymous
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- 26 Jan 2024
NeonHD, 26 Jan 2024Get ready for an IPAmirror website. Finally the stereotype ... moreIf you researched this correctly, Apple is requiring something that the media ain't reporting. You can't just sideload on a non JB iPhone. Which become useless faster than the "manufacturer-abandoned" Android that came out at the same time.
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- 26 Jan 2024
Vikass17, 26 Jan 20245-10 big companies like Netflix, Epic , EA and others can m... moreThat's a good one, no savings will ever be passed onto the customer, they care for their profits, not that the customers have to pay more in a walled garden.
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- 26 Jan 2024
Anonymous, 26 Jan 2024I don't understand what benefit will this move bring t... moreYou can use apps that aren't regulated by Apple. Will be a chance for different app developers to introduce their products to the market.
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- Anonymous
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- 26 Jan 2024
Surpising that it's the EU that is committed to stripping down the walls around Apple's walled garden and not the US. Guess the US doesn't care about consumer rights or fair competition.
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- 26 Jan 2024
NeonHD, 26 Jan 2024Get ready for an IPAmirror website. Finally the stereotype ... moreNah, you can install 3rd party apps in MacOS but people still claim it doesn't get viruses
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- 26 Jan 2024
Get ready for an IPAmirror website. Finally the stereotype that "Android phones are prone to viruses" isn't just an android thing now
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- Anonymous
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- 26 Jan 2024
Well, it's basically like "what you asked, is what you get" 🙄
The only part that I agree is the use of NFC, the rest like App Store or web browser engine. I personally don't care 🤷🏻♂️ and doesn't have impact on me. NFC should be open to all not just EU.
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- Anonymous
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- 26 Jan 2024
Vikass17, 26 Jan 20245-10 big companies like Netflix, Epic , EA and others can m... moreThey may do that but didn't some law that arrived recently made it compulsory to provide alternate payment modes already ?
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- 26 Jan 2024
Apple fanboys are against this new norm because they want to be trapped in their little boxes all the time. But the world has always been more open and we have always had the right to be more free and to choose as consumers want.
Apple was never against this, they were never for the consumer, they just wanted to dictate and own them and get all the fees as a monopoly.
Europe has had it and it's time for the winds of change to blow elsewhere.
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- 26 Jan 2024
Anonymous, 26 Jan 2024I don't understand what benefit will this move bring t... more5-10 big companies like Netflix, Epic , EA and others can make a joint market place and they won't have to pay 30% to Apple . Or they can buy some existing app store.
Maybe they can give 10-20 % out of that 30% as discount to customers.
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- 26 Jan 2024
MrLVegas, 26 Jan 2024Unless, you are Adam or Eve, you don’t have to go into the ... morePrecisely but we don't live in a country ruled by a dictatorship no matter what.
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- Anonymous
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- 26 Jan 2024
alternative app stores sounds promising. Apple's own is so full of garbage and it's difficult to find useful apps. or maybe there just arent that many useful apps on iOS compared to Android, lol
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- 26 Jan 2024
Ouifuf, 26 Jan 2024Apple turning EU regulations in a new monetary opportunuty ... moreThey really said "Ain't going down without a fight"
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- Anonymous
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- 26 Jan 2024
I don't understand what benefit will this move bring to consumers ? Just that they installe their favorite apps from a different store ?
Other than that idk why this move is better. I'm not an iOS user so pls someone explain
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- 26 Jan 2024
I like to believe this won't make much of a difference
A vast majority of iPhone users are non tech savvy and would most probably not make the full use of this "freedom"
Except for that payment part.
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- 26 Jan 2024
Tim Apple is on Soside watch.
Fruit fans pulling their hair (around the bald spot) out in frustration.
Europeans seen sipping on chilled wine with their common W.
Full story at 11.