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This is good news. App stores are more like an employer these days. Sure, „Don’t depend on an App Store alone”, but if you apply the same logic to worker rules,
by _the_inflator 6y ago
This is good news. App stores are more like an employer these days. Sure, „Don’t depend on an App Store alone”, but if you apply the same logic to worker rules, you have hire and fire.
The app stores are maturing and so comes regulation into play.
- amelius 6y agoThis should be broader though, and apply to any kind of platform, from food delivery to ride sharing.
- mqus 6y agoAfaict, this does apply to all online platforms. From the definitions: (2) ‘online intermediation services’ means services which meet all of the following requirements: (a) they constitute information society services within the meaning of point (b) of Article 1(1) of Directive (EU) 2015/1535 of the European Parliament and of the Council (12); (b) they allow business users to offer goods or services to consumers, with a view to facilitating the initiating of direct transactions between those business users and consumers, irrespective of where those transactions are ultimately concluded; (c) they are provided to business users on the basis of contractual relationships between the provider of those services and business users which offer goods or services to consumers; IANAL, of course.