Apple’s new App Store rules for the EU + more! - TechLinked Jan. 26, 2024

RILEYISMYNAME · January 27

NEWS SOURCES:

THIS IS WHAT YOU WANTED…RIGHT?

Apple announces official support for third-party app stores, payment systems, and browser engines on iOS... only in the EU

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2024/01/apple-announces-changes-to-ios-safari-and-the-app-store-in-the-european-union/

- EDITOR: this is what is being referenced by Source1, below

Alternative app marketplaces + browser engines EDITOR screenshot the first 4 bullet points under “Changes to iOS” section in Source1

BUT IT’S SO DANGEROUS https://twitter.com/TechLinkedYT/status/1750640917286146496/photo/1

So all marketplaces must be authorized and apps must be Notarized EDITOR screenshot the next 4 bullet points starting with “Notarization for iOS apps” in Source1

Some calling this “sideloading” – it’s not https://www.macrumors.com/2024/01/24/sideloading-in-europe-app-review-and-fees/

New business terms: Reduced 10/17% commissions, + 3% if you use Apple Pay https://lmg.gg/IS7vD

Bonus: users won’t see oooh scary warning https://twitter.com/dhh/status/1750682933638373424

NEW Core Technology Fee – devs pay €0.50 per annual install over 1 million, even for free apps https://lmg.gg/HmiYC

similar to Unity’s Runtime fee https://twitter.com/AshleyGullen/status/1750599926369693966

Devs can avoid CTF by staying on CURRENT business terms and stay exclusively on App Store https://lmg.gg/UQVps

Also app installs on iPadOS don’t count? https://lmg.gg/RUGyB

App marketplace devs pay CTF every time their marketplace app is installed, even before 1 million https://lmg.gg/eBC2C

Apple does recognize the danger of install spam https://lmg.gg/56nab

the only entity that can bankrupt you is Apple: https://twitter.com/nikitabier/status/1750592825060921353

Need a letter of credit of a million Euros to launch a marketplace https://lmg.gg/3Cksu

Why only in EU? Cuz of danger: Apple blocked $2 billion in fraudulent transactions in 2022 https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2023/05/app-store-stopped-more-than-2-billion-in-fraudulent-transactions-in-2022/

So did… Google https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2023/03/play-commerce-prevented-fraudulent-and-abusive-transactions-in-2022.html

GEFORCED

Worldwide change: Game streaming apps can actually host their libraries of games now

https://developer.apple.com/news/

https://www.polygon.com/24051821/xbox-game-pass-ultimate-ios-app-geforce-now

https://insider-gaming.com/apple-allows-gaming-apps-and-streaming-services-on-app-store/

browser-based Geforce Now was the only way to play Fortnite on iOS since 2020, now Epic Games plans to bring it back – even though Tim Sweeney thinks new rules are ‘hot garbage’

https://www.pcgamer.com/epic-taunts-apple-with-a-banana-as-tim-sweeney-decries-new-ios-rules-in-the-eu-as-hot-garbage/

https://twitter.com/FortniteGame/status/1750616130174234859

as long as Apple doesn’t block the Epic Games Store on iOS – Sweeney should watch his tone maybe

https://twitter.com/TimSweeneyEpic/status/1750589570880516402

QUICK BITS

BEEP BEEP, MOTHER-BEEPER

Apple revokes Beeper users’ Mac privileges

https://www.androidpolice.com/apple-beeper-imessage-banhammer/

New York Times reports https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/26/technology/apple-messaging-crackdown-beeper.html

Then Apple started unbanning https://appleinsider.com/articles/24/01/26/apple-is-restoring-mac-users-that-were-banned-after-using-beeper-on-iphone

Beeper’s still disabling new iMessage connections https://9to5google.com/2024/01/26/beeper-imessage-disabled-apple-ban/

I DON’T FEEL LIKE PART OF THE TEAM