This one is nothing to do with the UK, we don’t get alternative app stores, this is to do with the EU and the new rules on digital management.
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iOS Apps From Alternative Marketplaces Can Be Updated for 30 Days Outside of EU
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This is shinning proof that the security argument was giving for not wanting 3rd party App store is a LIE.
You can not block updates from them and claim security is the reason you dont want 3rd party app stores at the same time.
You can not block updates from them and claim security is the reason you dont want 3rd party app stores at the same time.
Because many people own an Android tablet as well, or maybe someone in the home owns an Android phone. Cross buy will help those people.
Also, there are the ones simply wanting to sideload emulators, or paying less for Spotify without having to leave the app.
That claim is only true about Steve Jobs and at this point the argument is no longer a valid argument as times have changed alot. Like you said by year 2 they opened it up.
ALso if it had no Apps tell me would you still use the iPhone?
You and I both know the answer to that question is NOPE.
How about 100 billion trillion gazillion?
At some point Apple would just hold up a certain finger to the EU and say “forget this, the fines are more expensive than the profits, we’re pulling out”.
Then fellow commenters on here will come and complain about how bad Apple is to pull out of the EU.
Do you think people really care? As long as they get their new yearly emojis, and can flash their fancy new phone, the world can burn around them and Apple knows it.
Steve Jobs also famously wanted to snuff Android out of existence as his dying wish. Guess things have changed.
Cue the complainers complaining about the complaining
Yeah, Europeans really are a special kind of people, aren't they? They act like their laws should apply everywhere, but wouldn't want another country's laws applying to Europe. My country's laws don't follow me wherever I go if I'm outside the country. Why would theirs follow them? That's not how it works! Your country's laws kind of end where the territory ends!
Funny how Apple did and still does lots of things to hinder web apps in many ways. 🤷♂️
the reason they are doing it - though they probably never will admit it - to protect and bolster their golden goose app store income
That still doesn't address Apple's "security concerns" over an open paradigm on iOS when MacOS has just such an open paradigm, more specifically the "security concerns" Apple always throws up as why they don't want an open paradigm. I don't disagree with you on the business points at all, that's why I've happily given up my iPhone and iPad, only use my Mac as a server, and only am forced to mickey mouse iMessage because my family are still on iPhones. Once I can get my family off iPhones then the server can go.
Because it wasn’t threatening their iOS App Store Revenue Monopoly before
Their actions are transparent as glass
It's called "alternative" because it's an alternative source of revenue for Apple when they collect their Core Technology Fee.
I hope you are joking. The US are notorious for disregarding the laws of other countries and applying their own
They should just lockdown macOS and get it over with and watch developers, for all the Apple platforms, largely disappear…and then see how demand for their “appliances” goes
Not just the store but an entire platform that 1.5 billion people use.
YouTube TV is well-known to do this. Although they give you three months, it’s nearly impossible to defeat the location tracking.
And that’s a service, Apple has access to the whole stack of hardware and software to track location.
Since the topic has to do with the E.U., I think when oofio2461 said most people, s/he was referring to most people within the E.U.
From https://www.cnbc.com/2023/08/18/9-e...orkers-get-more-than-a-month-of-vacation.html
Meanwhile, workers in many countries around the world, particularly in Europe, are known to take vacations for months at a time. For many, that’s thanks to the European Union Working Time Directive, which passed in the early 1990s, and requires at least 20 working days of paid vacation in all EU countries.
Several countries offer even more by law, giving workers more than a month of business days in vacation time per year. That doesn’t include paid public holidays, which, in some countries like Spain, can mean up to an additional 14 paid days off from work every year.
Here are nine European countries that give workers more than a month of paid vacations a year, according to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development:
- France: 30 days of paid vacation per year
- United Kingdom: 28 days of paid vacation per year
- Austria: 25 days of paid vacation per year
- Denmark: 25 days of paid vacation per year
- Finland: 25 days of paid vacation per year
- Norway: 25 days of paid vacation per year
- Spain: 25 days of paid vacation per year
- Sweden: 25 days of paid vacation per year
- Portugal: 22 days of paid vacation per year
And the world collectively voices their displeasure with that at every chance they get...all while continuing to gladly accept our tax dollars 🤔 If you were looking for a "gotcha"...try harder.
If it's wrong for us to do it and you (rightfully) whine about it...it's wrong for you, too. Seriously...even my kid has grown past the "they did it first" phase.
A VPN bypasses that easily, although I have no idea if Google can use any hardware, app, or sign-in information from your device to further track you, or if that's even legal. But from what I understand many outside of the US do just that, use a VPN to be able to use country-specific content.
I'd be curious to see if a VPN had any utility in this situation, but I highly doubt it because of Apple's ability to monitor your hardware.