Re:Update on StoreKit External Entitlement for dating apps
by toyg on Thursday March 31, 2022 @03:32AM
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> governments are going down the path of removing whatever protections the App Store provided consumers, without replacing those protections
As others pointed out, that's actually not true as far as the new EU regulation on the matter is concerned: it attempts to maintain principles that help users while removing monopolistic practices and abuses by gatekeepers.
In any case, even if governments were to ban certain behaviours without mandating replacements, the responsibility for such outcome lies very plainly with the handful of giant platform vendors who strenuously refused to work with competition authorities in good faith - preferring instead to defend their monopolistic abuses to the last day - with Apple being the worst of the lot.
As others pointed out, that's actually not true as far as the new EU regulation on the matter is concerned: it attempts to maintain principles that help users while removing monopolistic practices and abuses by gatekeepers.
In any case, even if governments were to ban certain behaviours without mandating replacements, the responsibility for such outcome lies very plainly with the handful of giant platform vendors who strenuously refused to work with competition authorities in good faith - preferring instead to defend their monopolistic abuses to the last day - with Apple being the worst of the lot.