EU antitrust chief tells Tim Cook Apple must allow third-party app stores
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The European Union's Margrethe Vestager has met with leaders of US Big Tech firms to discuss their operations in the EU, and with Apple's Tim Cook concentrated on the App Store and Apple Music.

EU antitrust chief to Tim Cook: Apple must allow third-party app stores::The European Union’s Margrethe Vestager has met with leaders of US Big Tech firms to discuss their operations in the EU, and with Apple’s Tim Cook concentrated on the App Store and Apple Music.

  • @SquizzyEnglish
    4•1 year ago

    You can’t mandate that until there are multiple storefronts. That should be the next step.

    As for everyone making you use their own app store, that will go down just as well as people who make me install their app, I won’t.

    Multiple storefronts doesn’t mean taking a single app away from the app store. It means you can subscribe to Spotify for 30% less by using an alternative. It means developer’s can argue for a larger cut of their revenue simply by having alternatives.

    As for individual game launchers, steam is far and away the most popular and well liked and it, with the exception of a few of their own titles, a third party launcher.

    Competition is good for the consumer.