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Even as EU developers get the option to sell apps outside of the App Store, there are some who should stay with Apple, and a few who should go it alone. Here's the breakdown.
Apple has just unveiled what’s coming in the next iPhone update, iOS 17.4, and it includes massive changes coming to the iPhone and its App Store.
Apple didn't make these moves voluntarily — they were required by a new European law, the Digital Markets Act.
Apple didn’t make these moves voluntarily — they were required by a new European law, the Digital Markets Act.
Apple has announced a raft of changes incoming to iOS in the European Union as the iPhone maker prepares to roll out its response to the bloc's ex ante competition reform, the Digital Markets Act (DMA). Back in September, the EU designated Apple as one of six so-called "gatekeepers" subject to the DMA, listing the iOS App Store and its browser Safari as "core platform services". In Apple's case this includes forcing it to accept sideloading of apps, among other changes.