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Re:Y Combinator Urges the White House to Support Europe's Di... by yupyupyups on Friday March 14, 2025 @02:10AM (#43360033)
Apple still indirectly controls what is distributed and charges developers outside their app store money[1]. So it hasn't been effective enough to actually open up the platform for arbitrary apps to be installed.

[1] https://developer.apple.com/support/core-technology-fee/

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Re:Y Combinator Urges the White House to Support Europe's Di... by niemandhier on Friday March 14, 2025 @02:51AM (#43360205)
That is under investigation, and believed to be non compliant with the act:

https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_24_...

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