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Re:App Store to Be 'Split in Two' Ahead of EU iPhone Sideloa... by nozzlegear on Monday January 15, 2024 @02:20PM (#39004907)
It will be interesting to see if Facebook decides to release their own app store, replete with all of the tracking that Apple had been taking away. If they make their apps only available through that kind of custom app store and then "encourage" FB/Insta/WhatsApp users to migrate, it defeats the walled garden.
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Re:App Store to Be 'Split in Two' Ahead of EU iPhone Sideloa... by CharlesW on Monday January 15, 2024 @02:41PM (#39005163)
Meta and other Big Tech corpos will naturally have their own app stores, and distribute their apps through them exclusively once they can.

A year from the release of this capability, EU users will have 20 additional app stores on their phone. Each will be sending notifications, coordinating "enhanced user tracking" between their apps and partner apps, advertising additional 1st- and 3rd-party products, performing background tasks like polling for updates, etc.

Paradise!

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Re:App Store to Be 'Split in Two' Ahead of EU iPhone Sideloa... by Krssst on Monday January 15, 2024 @11:01PM (#39009324)
Did not happen on Android.
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Re:App Store to Be 'Split in Two' Ahead of EU iPhone Sideloa... by CharlesW on Monday January 15, 2024 @11:15PM (#39009422)
Because you can’t download alternate app stores directly from Google’s Play Store. This is a really interesting point — if the EU doesn’t require Apple to allow competitive app stores on App Store, discovery barriers largely neuter potential impacts.
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