No Alternate App Markets on iPad?

[Lounge vibes 05]

According to 9 to 5 Mac, nope.

iPad users will miss out on third-party app stores, browser engines, and more - 9to5Mac

Yesterday, Apple announced some major changes to the App Store and the broader iPhone platform in the European Union, including...

9to5mac.com

 

[Populus]

Yep, apparently Apple is trying to get advantage of all the legal loops and holes to restrict the multiple marketplaces to the minimum amount of devices, e.i. only the iPhone.

If they really want to comply, they should allow the third party marketplaces on the iPad on iPadOS 18, but I very much doubt they do it if the EU doesn’t complain about it.

It’s a pity, because the most advantage I could get from apps that aren’t allowed on the official App Store, could be on the iPad, not on the iPhone.

 

[ScanTheNavian]

Would it be possible to get an app that runs a Linux OS on the iPad if this goes through?

 

[Ultracyclist]

I’ve started using AltStore in combination with my old MacBook Pro. I can honestly say I only miss Rapidweaver on my iPad now. Other than that it is my one and only device.

 

[nitrobear]

Would it be possible to get an app that runs a Linux OS on the iPad if this goes through?

If you don't mind not having a GUI, iSH is really useful and it's available on the App Store!

 

[cupcakes2000]

Would it be possible to get an app that runs a Linux OS on the iPad if this goes through?

If you have the inclination and the extra equipment, you can self host stuff.

There are Linux os options, browsers and all sorts of stuff that are traditionally non iPad things, running via docker. Somewhat clunky sometimes, but certainly does the trick at a pinch.

A NAS, a raspberry Pi, rent a VPS etc ..

 

[mvwoensel]

If they really want to comply, they should allow the third party marketplaces on the iPad on iPadOS 18, but I very much doubt they do it if the EU doesn’t complain about it.

Apple doesn't have to allow it on iPadOS, because only iOS has been designated as a core platform service by the European Commission. The EC is still investigating if iPadOS should be designated as well: https://ec.europa.eu/competition/digital_markets_act/cases/202343/DMA_100047_5136.pdf

 

[cupcakes2000]

Apple doesn't have to allow it on iPadOS, because only iOS has been designated as a core platform service by the European Commission. The EC is still investigating if iPadOS should be designated as well: https://ec.europa.eu/competition/digital_markets_act/cases/202343/DMA_100047_5136.pdf

Yep. But does that mean they shouldn’t? As it stands their somewhat malicious compliance seems to be fracturing their own ecosystem just to prove a point.

 

[Populus]

Apple doesn't have to allow it on iPadOS, because only iOS has been designated as a core platform service by the European Commission. The EC is still investigating if iPadOS should be designated as well: https://ec.europa.eu/competition/digital_markets_act/cases/202343/DMA_100047_5136.pdf

Yeah, I know. You’re quoting a message from January and I didn’t know that back then.
Anyways, I really hope the EC concludes that iPadOS must be included on the DMA as well. I didn’t know they were already investigating if iPadOS should be included or not. Let’s see…

Thanks for the document, btw!

 

[Ctrlos]

The irony being that the iPhone isn't even close to a monopoly in the phone market yet Apple pretty much have the tablet market sown up to themselves!

 

[bscheffel]

Sadly, Apple will never allow this until people stop buying iPads or some government forces them to

 

[Reverend Benny]

If Apple would be even more creative they could chop up i-something OS even further so they don't have to comply with the rules.

How about iProOS,iPhoneSEOS,imobiledevicetypethingOS?

As I see it the law should cover all mobile devices or devices that can utilize AppStore.

 

[mrochester]

Yep. But does that mean they shouldn’t? As it stands their somewhat malicious compliance seems to be fracturing their own ecosystem just to prove a point.

It’s the EU that have forced the fracturing by forcing Apple to make changes to iOS? If they’d left it alone there wouldn’t be this fracturing.

 

[cupcakes2000]

It’s the EU that have forced the fracturing by forcing Apple to make changes to iOS? If they’d left it alone there wouldn’t be this fracturing.

Thats besides the point. Its happening whether you, anyone here, or indeed Apple like it or not. Apple should gracefully comply with their apple-esque elegance.

Else it's just cutting off your nose to spite your face.

 

[mrochester]

Thats besides the point. Its happening whether you, anyone here, or indeed Apple like it or not. Apple should gracefully comply with their apple-esque elegance.

Else it's just cutting off your nose to spite your face.

Well it’s better to keep iPadOS the way it is than to bastardise it with the EU changes. We might as well try and minimise the amount of damage the EU is trying to inflict.

 

[cupcakes2000]

Well it’s better to keep iPadOS the way it is than to bastardise it with the EU changes. We might as well try and minimise the amount of damage the EU is trying to inflict.

I'm never going to agree that apples locked down method is better than a more open system anymore. I saw the light after years in their cage. Its better when you're free I assure you. The rhetoric around the 'danger' is entirely overblown at best, down right lies at worst.

 

[mrochester]

I'm never going to agree that apples locked down method is better than a more open system anymore. I saw the light after years in their cage. Its better when you're free I assure you. The rhetoric around the 'danger' is entirely overblown at best, down right lies at worst.

You can buy an Android tablet then 👍

 

[cupcakes2000]

You can buy an Android tablet then 👍

What a cop out comment.

I already use multiple platforms. And by quite a long chalk, iOS is a pain to use comparatively. I'm pretty ingrained in the ecosystem, so I'm not going to ditch it. I'm very much looking forwards to it becoming more useful though.

Being as though this happening regardless of your opinion, I would start to build that bunker for the impending doom about to befall everybody's iPhone - Trying to advise random people on the internet on what they should or shouldn't buy won't help you 👍