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That explanation does not work. The DSA isn't a law restricted to App Stores. Also, podcasts and ebooks are not apps, but they listed their ebook store and po
by jsnell 4y ago
That explanation does not work. The DSA isn't a law restricted to App Stores.
Also, podcasts and ebooks are not apps, but they listed their ebook store and podcast subscriptions platform in this disclosure. Why not the music store, the TV series and movie subscription service?
- MBCook 4y agoApple says this is a list of their App Store user counts, and the things they’ve listed are their app stores. Perhaps they’ll release those other numbers in a different document. I can’t say why Apple appears to be doing things this way. I was only pointing out why Apple may not have included them here.
- FateOfNations 4y agoThe explanation I see as relevant: the relevant portions of the DSA are about online platforms, which it defines as: > ‘online platform’ means a provider of hosting service which, at the request of a recipient of the service, stores and disseminates to the public information." For some content, particularly music, video, and some ebooks, Apple is the merchant of record. They are not acting as a platform for that content but as a traditional retailer. Compare this with the App Store, where Apple instead acts as a platform, intermediating the dissemination of information between non-Apple content providers and the public. A service like Amazon would have this distinction as well. Some interactions are direct retail transactions between an Amazon entity and the public. At the same time, its Amazon Marketplace service provides a platform for non-Amazon sellers to disseminate information to the public.