• anlumo@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    If the requirements are the same as for iPhones, this change is entirely inconsequential, because Apple can just add so many hurdles to sideloading to make this infeasible.

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      7 months ago

      Bored open source devs with a deep hatred for apple: “Challenge accepted”

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      7 months ago

      By all means. After Apple has painted themselves in a corner, when the legislation has been loophole proofed, that’s when Apple gets hit in the face with the Brussels effect - like a big, floppy, dong slapped across Steve Apple’s mouth in every country out there.

      I’ll do a dance for every country. I’ll do a shimmy for Botswana, a conga for Japan, a shake for Sebia, etc, etc.

      Slap! Other cheek. Slayap! Other cheek! And so on and so forth.

      Hopefully.

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        7 months ago

        Loophole-proofing means doing a revision to the DMA, which means that they need to go through all of the stages again. It took three years on the first round, and they’re probably going to need a few more revisions to get all of the holes fixed.

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          There is no loophole though.

          Even if there was, the EU runs on civil law, not common law, which means the intent of the law trumps the wording, and there is no emphasis on precedents. So if an EU judge decides that Apple is fucking around trying to skirt the law, there is no change required to the law to slap them down.

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      7 months ago

      The EU said the Apple’s implementation isn’t complying. The rules are clear. Sideloading means sideloading.

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      7 months ago

      I don’t see why they wouldn’t be. iPadOS is still basically iOS Double Wide.

      The rules will almost certainly be the iOS rules, but find and replace iOS for iPad.

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        7 months ago

        Some think that the EU won’t accept the terms that Apple set up for alternate marketplaces, but it’ll probably take a decade or more until the EU can get off its ass.

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          If it took a decade, it would be the first time regarding these issues.

          EU acted at a week’s notice last time Apple tried to pull shit about third party app stores.

          They didn’t hesitate fining both Apple and Google 10% of their turnover in the past either.

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            7 months ago

            The problem is that fixing the loopholes most likely needs changes to the Act itself. That takes years, the first revision of the Digital Markets Act took three years.

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      7 months ago

      The current implementation is what Apple (or Apple’s lawyers) think complies with the EU, this doesn’t mean the EU will fully accept this iteration. Apple is probably mainly playing with time here.

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        7 months ago

        The problem is that fixing the loopholes most likely needs changes to the Act itself.

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          There is no real loophole though. Apple latched on to some part of the Act to justify what they are doing and play for time, while pretending the rest of the Act does not exist. The Act says in no uncertain terms that Apple is not allowed to self-preference - meaning that the alternative app stores must have as much exposure and placement on their platform as their own.

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            7 months ago

            This is not the issue here. The problem is that everybody has to pay through their nose to get the priviledge to publish on an alternate marketplace or be an alternate marketplace.