Apple Releases App Store Monthly Active User Counts for EU to Comply with DSA

Re:Apple Releases App Store Monthly Active User Counts for E... by cycomanic on Friday April 28, 2023 @04:03AM (#35738728)

That's a weird argument. Are Aldi supermarkets the same, "no the one on 5th avenue sells vegetables in isle 5 and the one on 3rd they are on isle 2". It's still really the same and particularly they advertise it to be the same.

I think there should be a hard rule, that if companies try to sell something as the same to consumers, they immediately loose if they try to argue they are separate things when it comes to regulations.

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Re:Apple Releases App Store Monthly Active User Counts for E... by raverbashing on Friday April 28, 2023 @04:21AM (#35738841)

But all Aldi stores sell the same stuff more or less

> "no the one on 5th avenue sells vegetables in isle 5 and the one on 3rd they are on isle 2"

But that's not what's happening here

Is an iPad app the same thing as an iPhone app? Or a watch app?

If an iPhone app took minimal work to work on the iPad, then I'd say it's the same thing, sure

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Re:Apple Releases App Store Monthly Active User Counts for E... by goosedragons on Friday April 28, 2023 @06:56AM (#35739700)

You can literally run iPhone apps on an iPad and have been able to since day one. You can also run some iPhone/iPad apps on a Mac if the developer allows it. Often the iPhone/iPad apps are the same binary and the same purchase gets you both versions, you just get a different UI depending on the device.

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Re:Apple Releases App Store Monthly Active User Counts for E... by blendergeek on Friday April 28, 2023 @07:29AM (#35739970)

I don't think it matter what the developers do on the backend. If I buy XYZ app for iPhone, does that mean I also have XYZ app for iPad (if its available)? If so, they feel like the same store.

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