Re:App Store to Be 'Split in Two' Ahead of EU iPhone Sideloa...
by threeseed on Monday January 15, 2024 @01:38PM
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It will be interesting if it's the Denmark model or whether they put the responsibility on third party app stores to supply this data to Apple on behalf of the hosted apps.
Either way third party app stores should end up being noticeably more expensive than using the official. Especially once they start having to deal with fraud, chargebacks etc.
Re:App Store to Be 'Split in Two' Ahead of EU iPhone Sideloa...
by dickersnoodle on Tuesday January 16, 2024 @08:36AM
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And when they start seeing that extra expense they'll go whining to the EU regulators again.
Re:App Store to Be 'Split in Two' Ahead of EU iPhone Sideloa...
by SllX on Monday January 15, 2024 @01:58PM
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Netherlands, not Denmark. People from the Netherlands are Dutch and people from Denmark are Danish.
Re:App Store to Be 'Split in Two' Ahead of EU iPhone Sideloa...
by wkat4242 on Tuesday January 16, 2024 @06:50PM
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Ugh I hope not notarization. It's a real pain to deal with on Mac if you're building packages. And also a privacy leak as it used to send the app hash to Apple on every launch. This has now been reduced to once a week but still..
Luckily it can still be avoided by turning off gatekeeper.
The EU almost certainly wouldn't allow it.
> b) How will Apple collect their commission. There is nothing in the regulation that says that they can't continue to do this.
See Denmark which has an App Store carveout for in-app purchases within dating apps. Basically, Apple wants records and reserves the right to audit.
Considering this is more than in-app purchases, I would expect a requirement for an Apple Developer account and a legal agreement to get a process similar to notarization on macOS.