Yes it does. This idea has been discussed adnauseum so not going to restate the premise of why this is incorrect.
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App Store to Be 'Split in Two' Ahead of EU iPhone Sideloading Deadline
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So you agree it's "problematic" (lack of choice) if certain apps aren't available through certain stores?
- Some users being unable to get certain apps or functionality through their one preferred store, though they could get it somewhere else
vs.
- One single store (App Store) having a monopoly on all app purchases and witholding certain apps or functionality from all users - so they can't get it anywhere else
👉 I can clearly see where there's the greater lack of choice
vs.
- One single store (App Store) having a monopoly on all app purchases and witholding certain apps or functionality from all users - so they can't get it anywhere else
👉 I can clearly see where there's the greater lack of choice
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It’s not a bad thing but can quickly turn into a UX trainwreck for customers. Imagine each app you need on your phone requiring you to download its maker’s alternative store so they do not pay a fee to another app store, but also to act as an updater service. I’ve never seen iOS apps handle updates by themselves like desktop apps, the App Store handles that
Fairly painless. The app itself can check for an update upon startup - and just link to the download site.
Apple themselves describe that for in-house apps.
Is it as convenient as an "update all" button on the iOS App Store? No. But not a big deal either.
Other operating systems don’t do that, but if apple tried it I’d hope that the EU clarified that linking to a library does not require a copyright license and that a header (or equivalent) is merely descriptive of a copyright work and not itself copyrightable.
Ideally such behaviour would push more people into realising that copyright is a blight on humanity and should never have existed in anything like its modern form, but even when a critical mass of people can be convinced (however long that takes) the EU commission won’t care.
People seem to forget that in the USA we live in a walled garden of available phone devices. Brands like Oppo, Huawei, Xiaomi and ZTE are not for sale in the states. So we are limited to only the Apple and Android brands that the FCC approves. Who knows what features we are missing out on from those manufacturers let alone App Stores. 
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Discord is a pretty popular app that’s limited on iOS compared to the Mac or android versions, because of App Store restrictions on 18+ UGC in apps (which somehow doesn’t apply to Twitter).
The fact that I can sideload and have a Samsung Galaxy Store has changed exactly nothing for me. All the major apps are still on the Play Store, and *I* get to install apps that are not permitted on the store such as AdGuard for global ads blocking.
very little for free apps that you don’t get for free for Windows and free with the hardware for MacOS.
Companies are creations of government that are allowed to exist on the pretext that they benefit society as a whole. Sometimes the government has to make them live up to that pretext a bit more than they usually do.
And doesn’t the US d
iOS apps run in sandboxes. That’s not going to change.
Happens all the time. I would have liked to buy a use an Honor Magic V2 here in the USA. Not happening.
I can get one overseas and ship it here but no one will support it for 5G and many not LTE either. Forget CDMA.
SO it happens. Deal with it even if you don’t like it.
I am still waiting for the EU to require that any hardware allow anyone’s software. Game consoles, you car, everything.
It annoys me that Apple seems to be the only hardware manufacturer that they care about giving hardware access away.
It annoys me that Apple seems to be the only hardware manufacturer that they care about giving hardware access away.
So I guess the EU users can look forward to a 30% reduction in app costs when developers don't have to pay Apple 30% anymore. Cough....Cough....
That to but. Capitalism with our regulation is inherent to fail. It’s well know and studied.
What does this even mean?
europe did not split from the rest of the world apple dud. And I am curious to see how they are going to implement this and the work around- hooooh the work around. Apple lost and stay tuned for the USA to come in force.
reading most of the comments in the favor of apple i cannot help but be disappointed in consumerism culture of today.
while I understand that this might be a bad because it’s basically a back door, but it’s door every body knows about and apple should add a sort of icon when side loading is in use like for when the camera and microphone is.
this comment section is the living proof of why the right to repair is so far behind.
you don’t want option, what you want is trend. A product is supposed to serve a purpose not give you purpose.
i hope to see apple move forward especially with multiple users for ipad. Multiple os ( virtual iOS )
imagine being able to emulate iOS 6-current on you iPad pro m2 or m3.
grant the emulation will not have access to certain thing due to security ( mainly the old safari, and the ability to make purchase.
while I understand that this might be a bad because it’s basically a back door, but it’s door every body knows about and apple should add a sort of icon when side loading is in use like for when the camera and microphone is.
this comment section is the living proof of why the right to repair is so far behind.
you don’t want option, what you want is trend. A product is supposed to serve a purpose not give you purpose.
i hope to see apple move forward especially with multiple users for ipad. Multiple os ( virtual iOS )
imagine being able to emulate iOS 6-current on you iPad pro m2 or m3.
grant the emulation will not have access to certain thing due to security ( mainly the old safari, and the ability to make purchase.
My iMac is perfectly secure. No issues whatsoever with side loading here.
If those developers get a 30% increase to their income, that's also a big win.
We will see if EU is happy for Apple to do, yet again, surprise, preferential treatment specifically for EU and nowhere else.
Hats off to EU to send a clear and strong message to Apple and alike: the world does not revolve around you and you are NOT the life’s main character. It’s not like US and EU had been played along well from 2016 to 2020 either.
I do have to give some credit for Apple successfully brainwashed enough customers to support their “sideloading = evil” narrative. It just gets to show again how insanely and terrifyingly powerful megacorps have become to our lives. “You are not you, and you must be happy.”
Hats off to EU to send a clear and strong message to Apple and alike: the world does not revolve around you and you are NOT the life’s main character. It’s not like US and EU had been played along well from 2016 to 2020 either.
I do have to give some credit for Apple successfully brainwashed enough customers to support their “sideloading = evil” narrative. It just gets to show again how insanely and terrifyingly powerful megacorps have become to our lives. “You are not you, and you must be happy.”
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The EU’s power stops within its borders. They can suck a big fat one trying to influence policy in the US.
I’ll just say that tonight I’m not a fan of the EU OR the USA. I think they’re both nonsensical.