For the people who aren't very familiair with the EU lawmaking machine, early 2023 actually means 2024 by the earliest and then 2025 before you're gonna see effects because of cooldown periods.
It’s because of the cooldown period it will be implemented in early 2023. It will be voted on in a few months and 8 months cooldown period it will become law.
That's what has been forgotten; and I suspect Apple will simply change its pricing model so that things which now are bundled will be a seperaet charge, hurting small developers. I could see them say, sure, use 3rd party payments, we'll just charge for d/l's instead if you offer subscriptions and fall into certain app categories. There is no reason for Apple to underwrite EPIC's hosting for free. Alternatively, if sideloading is allowed Apple could simply say we do not host apps that can also be sideloaded.
Charging for downloads will very likely be infinitely cheaper than paying 15% of revenue to apple. Microsoft takes 0% for non gaming applications on the Microsoft store. Pay per use is a more fare model.
EU developers pay their taxes and VAT separately not including in their cut.
And if apple want to hurt small developers and chase them away it’s their business choice, might incentivize good competition with alternatives stores such as Epic store and Steam to take apple market share
I wonder how the privacy vs. access to data will play out. If Apple has to handover data and is not allowed to let users choose not to share it, clearly they are not liable for any privacy violations.
GDPR Willa till apply. EU wants to implement apples AppStore data policy for the whole web. But more strict.
I suspect smal developers may get hurt as well depending on how Apple reacts.
That’s upp to apple to do bad or good business decisions.
Not just Apple… the bigger more pricey App suites like Adobe will be hit hard as you can get a cracked version of the suite on the once implemented new iOS version of the “Pirate Bay.”
DRM exist or online requirements or iOS device registration etc. it’s very easy to pirate iOS apps already.
Only wonder if this law bleeds over to iPadOS or is the EU really concerned about devs or do they just want to unlock message encryption on iPhones?
It’s for everyone, it’s not targeting apple, google, Microsoft etc. gate keeper is an objective criteria based on revenue, user base and business users in EU.
This is a double-edged sword here. On the one hand it will be nice to use one app to talk to anyone on any platform. On the other hand iMessage security will only be as strong as the weakest app you are communicating with. Plus not all apps support the same features so the user experience will have to fallback to the lowest common denominator of shared experiences.
This whole thing just feels like government overreach.
The security will be just as strong as the protocol the services use. iMessage with signal will just be as strong as the weakest link.
iMessage with WhatsApp is just as secure as WhatsApp to WhatsApp would be
If companies like Microsoft, Sony, Facebook, Google, etc.. are thinking these sweeping regulations won’t set a legal precedent that impacts their ways of doing business too: They better start Thinking Different™ real soon.
The EU (& US) may intend to single out Apple, but the dominos are going to fall on many others too.
Apple isn’t singled out. All these companies are covered. There is no legal president. It’s because of DMA coveriand DSA.
The DSA will mandate social media platforms such as Facebookc YouTube and twitter etc disclose to regulators how their algorithms work, obligations would create transparency on how decisions to remove content are taken and on the way advertisers target users. This means no more vague decisions and broken rules they don’t tell you about.
