Japan forces Apple and Google to allow third-party app stores and payments
Japan forces Apple and Google to allow third-party app stores and payments
That's a trend I was hoping the EU would start. Come on nations, jump on the bandwagon!
Yesssss! This is big and hoping other countries follow suite. Write to your elected officials all over the world and press these changes! We need to take our rights back from big tech and rein them in! They’ve been controlling us for far too long!!
The law allows local authorities to name "designated providers" of a certain scale – currently only achieved by Apple and Google – and require those providers to do three things:
- Allow third-party app stores on their devices;
- Allow application developers to use third-party billing services;
- Enable users to change default settings with simple procedures, and offer choice screens for tools like browsers;
And it forbids them doing three more:
- Engage in any form of preferential treatment of their services over those of competitors in the display of search results without justifiable reason;
- Use acquired data about competing applications for their own applications;
- Prevent application developers from using features controlled by the OS with the same level of performance as the one used by Designated Providers.
This.... this is amazing
Japan is a smart country, I mean look at the Shinkansen.
Is that last one granting access to closed APIs?
That’s a double edged sword if I ever heard one.
In your fucking face, apple (and apple simps)
Yup, I like some apple products as much as the next girl but I go crazy when people defend Apple being unfair.
We need this in the USA too! Innovation is stifled when platforms can directly affect the growth of other services, too bad the majority of our politicians are useless. I will continue to vote those fools out to pave the way for this type of legislation! I'm using Apple due to them not being as awful with LLMs as Google is; however, I don't approve of their anti-consumer and anti-competition measures in their ecosystem.
I’m totally fine with 3rd party stores if that’s what people really want, but don’t confuse that with unsigned or self-signed app loads by 3rd parties. That will never happen.