In just a few days, a new law on digital markets will come into force in the European Union, which will fundamentally change a number of things. For example WhatsApp will have to open up to third-party communicators, both for receiving and sending messages, and neither Apple will not escape a number of changes that the new EU law will require of it. For example, we are talking about the implementation of support iOS installing applications outside App Store, the ability to set your own default web browser or the need to unlock NFC chip in the iPhone to third-party payment services. All these innovations have already been Apple recently announced through a press release that it will arrive on iPhones along with iOS 17.4 at the beginning of March. However, as it now appears, he may have to "toughen up." These changes still seem insufficient to his competition.
The most discussed change coming to iPhones is undoubtedly the ability to install applications from sources other than the App StoreThis new feature is condemned by many Apple fans as well as by the developers for whom the EU paradoxically introduced it. The problem, however, is that the concept of support that is being used Apple decided, it is still very disadvantageous for them and so they largely prefer to remain in App Storerather than creating their own app store, which will be guaranteed by millionsonem euro and which will not exempt them from commissions Applu. He is counting on charging 50 cents for every download of the application above a million. And the strange conditions Applu quite stirred up the competition led by Meta and Microsoftem.
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Fin portalancial Times reported a few hours ago specifically that Meta and Microsoft They are currently lobbying the EU to have European Union regulators reject the new conditions Applu, which they are trying to meet the requirements of the Digital Markets Act, saying that they are insufficient. The goal of both companies is therefore to force the EU Apple in order to open up their mobile platform even more and thus enable them to work with it even better through the possibilities they could potentially get on it. How the European Union will stand on the whole matter is not very clear at the moment, but given its earlier statement that if it does not think compliance with the Digital Markets Act is sufficient, it will have no problem taking action, we would not be surprised if Apple she stepped on. After all, the adequacy of compliance with the law is to a large extent determined by the feedback from the developers who work on the platform, and the feedback is not good.
I wonder if they will go outside then? AppStore download hacked apps for free, what else are there AppStore charged. 🤔
If you are EU and possibly Meta Microsoft think they will get something out of it, they are wrong... Considering that in comparison to Asia and the USA, the EU is Apple small, even significant market, it can easily happen that Apple products can only be found in Europe in countries that are not members of the EU... That Zuckerberg and Gateshis successors try to Apple is one step ahead of them, I understand that, but here the EU is interfering in the market in a style that is absolutely beyond the pale... a customer who does not want to operate in a closed and well-fortified "ecosystem" AppYou can buy a different brand of mobile phone, computer, etc. Apple He makes the mistake of not defending himself... Filing a complaint with the European Court of Justice would be pointless... The reason is simple, EU directives are not in the interest of the customer, but rather in the interest of the EU to reconcile people, to reconcile customers Applu… I'm very curious how this will develop after Euroin elections when the pure left-wing part Eurothe parliament will almost disappear and the center-right parties will take over...
I agree… if Apple withdrew its products from the EU market, I bet the EU would back down and within 2 weeks all products/services would be back... I still hope that the system will eventually iOS 17.4 do not open. I repeat it over and over, that the customer can choose between Apple and competition, and when he Apple I don't like it, he can choose anything else... but then there are also people, like "Ndndndn" below, who would prefer to order everything and everyone....
I don't know what they don't like…..they cried opening the installation from the outside, they got it. There was no mention of how he was doing Apple to do and certainly not that it must be made available for free,
You will be a case too. After all, no one is forcing you iOS use. 😉
In short, if we can't do it as well as Apple, so we make him have to do it as badly as we do.
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buy an android and don't cry