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Apple announces support for alternative app marketplaces, web browser engines in the EU with iOS 17.4 (www.macstories.net)
submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Updated the link to a better source that gives a more detailed overview.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (11 children)

Yet again, we lack the only detail anyone actually cares about: how does Apple plan on actually limiting this functionality to the EU?

It’s difficult for me to imagine how they can comply with this but only for EU customers in a manner which can’t be easily circumvented. It kind of bothers me that journalists just parrot “these changes will not be coming to jurisdictions outside of the EU” uncritically, seemingly just completely taking for granted the idea that there’s not going to be any way to benefit from this if you don’t live in the EU.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Two ways:

  1. Software Country and Region
  2. By extending the country-specific models Apple already manufactures. For example, Chinese models can shut off WiFi access to any app, and this is only present in Chinese models and can't be changed with the software Country and Region switch.
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