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> The company in its argument to the EU competition enforcer said it operates five App Stores on iPhones, iPads, Mac computers, Apple TVs and Apple Watches, wit
by devsda 3y ago
> The company in its argument to the EU competition enforcer said it operates five App Stores on iPhones, iPads, Mac computers, Apple TVs and Apple Watches, with each designed to distribute apps for a specific operating system and Apple device
They might as well count the iphones with different aspect ratios and inflate the number beyond five.
- seabass-labrax 3y agoConsidering how arbitrary Apple's demarcation of the five App Stores is already, it's not much of a technical leap to go further. I'm no expert on the Apple developer tools, but if it's anything like Android, apps for a 2022 iPhone are a lot closer to apps for a 2022 iPad than they are to a 2018 iPhone. With Android, new API/ABI versions are released with breaking changes, forcing a different set of apps to be available for each version, but the codebase remains mostly the same across form factors at any given point in time. I think the Commission are more than capable of seeing through Apple's artificial distinctions here, but the question is whether the General Court will!