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Rival App Stores on iPhone Estimated to Have Limited Impact on Apple's Revenue
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What is the spirit of the legislation even?
I personally don't think it's as clear cut as everyone here is making it out to be. You seem to assume that anyone will be able to just download an app from some third party website directly onto their device, and the developer keeps 100% of the revenue (minus credit card processing fees), and it will work as though it was downloaded directly from the App Store.
I can guarantee you it will not be as straightforward.
Well USB type C is objectively better that Lightning from a technical point of view so it will make them technically better than they are now.
I don't understand this 'spirit of the legislation' that keeps getting mentioned.
If legislators want to see a certain type of behaviour they just need to legislate in plain English.
Apart from it's not as robust as lightning. But otherwise it does basically the same thing as lightning, it's reversible and it'll charge your phone, so I don’t think consumers will see it as a benefit. They’ll just see that connectors are being needlessly changed and having to spend additional money to replace existing equipment.
They can charge a fee, likely will, but they have to comply with all of the rest of the legislation.
No more locking down the NFC chip to only work with Apple Pay, No more gimping of third party browsers, no more banning third party services from linking to their own site, no more allowing their services to work with Siri for years before opening it up to competing services etc etc
Well that's your opinion that isn't an objective fact.
Everything else, USB C > Lightning. Apple tacitly admitted this when they put it on the iPad Pro.
All of which have nothing to do with the issue of allowing sideloading / third party app stores at all.
Well they are in addition to the obvious points that Apple won't be able to insist on developers using their payment systems or dictate which apps people can use on their phone.
It is unclear where Apple stands on taking fees from Apps that aren't distributed from the App Store, they got away with the reduced cut in Korea/The Netherlands because the legislation only mandated that they allow use of different payment processors, the apps were still distributed from the App Store.
I did say I’ll buy the best for; whether it’s the best if the or the best of the worst.
That still may have restrictions.
Allowing sideloading (a software update) is infinitely more straightforward than changing the entire production process for a differently shaped hole
Assuming they don't just own one (1) iPhone in their house, there's amost certainly at least one USB-C cable lying around.