Now let’s bring this to that portion mentioned called “the rest of the world”
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Apple Confirms iPadOS Will Get Same EU App Changes as iOS This Fall
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Oh Tyler. Hurry! Go lock your doors. Fans with pitchforks and torches will be rallying to storm your castle for daring to suggest such a concept... even when they have exactly the same kinds of owner freedoms with their own Macs and have very likely taken full advantage of them. 
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It’s up to American lawmakers to do it.
The dominoes won’t be falling unless the U.S. (and possibly a couple of other developed markets, e.g. Japan and the U.K.) enact similar legislatio.
Malicious compliance seems the right response to malicious enforcement.
”We have a bunch of quantitative metrics that you don’t violate so we’re holding you in breach of the qualitative one: we don’t like you.”
Isn't it great that we have left the mob days behind of us for good?
Why so long? Just implement the changes on a future iPadOS 17.x before iPadOS 18.0 goes public. No point to waiting until the last moment anymore, and it would be much better PR for Apple. At this point in time with the maturity of iOS 17.5/IPadOS 17.5 likely the easiest time to do it before testing 18's new features.
Except for the reality that iPadOS is iOS in essentially all but name only.
It serves a different market.
Not to mention the malicious enforcement you refer to occurred after Apple decided not to make the same changes for iPadOS. You can't respond to something that hasn't happened yet, otherwise it's not a response.
Cant wait to play mame arcade games on my oled screen. That... and pinball obviously!
Its gonna look gorgeous.
Its gonna look gorgeous.
The iPhone SE and iPhone 15 Pro also serve different markets, but it'd be bold to claim that they're distinctly separate.
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So imagine, if those bad apps infiltrated under Apple's watch, it's going to be much worse now.What caveat? It's not like the App Store is unblemished and Apple can make guarantees about it.
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At least Apple finally caught up to them and removed the apps and eliminated their developer accounts.
Now's it's going to be open territory.
Your grandpa is going to call you every week in the middle of the night with a virus on his iPad.
Why publicly commit to an earlier deadline and potentially miss it?
And now spammers are going to create apps to blast spam to other Apple users.
It's going to be like Android, where Ad popups appear out of nowhere and nobody knows why, and need to install an antivirus on the device.
And software piracy will skyrocket.
I'm definitely not loading anything from third-party stores.
It's going to be like Android, where Ad popups appear out of nowhere and nobody knows why, and need to install an antivirus on the device.
And software piracy will skyrocket.
I'm definitely not loading anything from third-party stores.
Nah, I still think they’ll geofence it. If they do it at all it’ll be iOS/iPadOS 19.x next year.
I’m softening my view on this a bit. There’s still no answer to the question what happens to the user when a big app becomes exclusive to a third-party marketplace and no longer receives updates on the App Store?
Will they be forced to unlock third-party stores on their iPhones like on Android? What if they don’t want to? Will the app just stop working? How is that “consumer friendly”?
I'm pretty envious about it. I really would love to use a real version of Firefox on the iPad, not just some skinned version of the WebKit API. But I live in the USA.
Android allows any application to be sideloaded and any appstore to be installed. Google Play Store still has everything. And no one is anywhere near the marketshare it has.
Amazing, maybe. But in the end, it all comes down to a sacrifice, a loss of a certain € amount, something small in the grand scheme of Apple's EU endeavors.
Conversely, losing access to some 741.000.000 potential consumers is not the way forward.
When I had an Android phone 11 years ago I had to go into the settings to allow apps to be installed outside of the Play Store.
Has that been removed?
Apple certainly know what they’re doing. They are crying, “Oh no! Please don’t make our products more valuable to EU consumers such that it increases our hardware marketshare significantly!! Well, we’ll begrudgingly go ahead and make these changes and just have to satisfy ourselves by crying into the piles of money these additional sales will pull in! Woe is us!”
Pretty much. “We see that this product doesn’t meet the requirements to be defined a gatekeeper, but, today, it’s now a gatekeeper. Why? ‘cause.”
Good point. I don't see why a big app developer would do that, after considering the pros and cons.
I doubt any third-party store would have enough resources to provide good customer service like Apple does.
I don't see the real benefit to move my app to a third-party store.