> can Apple deny this to US users? For how long? Yes. For as long as either... - The US fails to pass DMA-equivalent antimonopoly law. We had the Open App Mar

> can Apple deny this to US users? For how long? Yes. For as long as either... - The US fails to pass DMA-equivalent antimonopoly law. We had the Open App Markets Act (OAMA) but it's basically dead thanks to lobbying - The EU fails to impose DMA requirements outside of their jurisdiction One thing to note is that the EU loves extraterritoriality. They call it the Brussels Effect - they write laws in such a way that it's cheaper to just comply worldwide than try and carve out the EU. For example, GDPR protects EU citizens, rather than people in the EU, so anyone with EU citizen data has to comply with GDPR even if they have no contact with the EU. The US and EU are both sovereign nations, so there's all sorts of ways this could play out. The EU could amend the Digital Markets Act to require worldwide compliance, which would obligate Apple to offer sideloading to Americans. The options to combat this from the US side would be fairly limited and arguably too extreme to use. Most of Apple's lobbying has been to prevent the US from mandating sideloading, but they wouldn't be arguing for, say, a full-on ban of sideloading purely to distolerate our hypothetical EU worldwide DMA requirement.