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It will be interesting to see if Facebook decides to release their own app store, replete with all of the tracking that Apple had been taking away. If they make
by nozzlegear 3y ago
It will be interesting to see if Facebook decides to release their own app store, replete with all of the tracking that Apple had been taking away. If they make their apps only available through that kind of custom app store and then "encourage" FB/Insta/WhatsApp users to migrate, it defeats the walled garden.
- CharlesW 3y agoMeta and other Big Tech corpos will naturally have their own app stores, and distribute their apps through them exclusively once they can. A year from the release of this capability, EU users will have 20 additional app stores on their phone. Each will be sending notifications, coordinating "enhanced user tracking" between their apps and partner apps, advertising additional 1st- and 3rd-party products, performing background tasks like polling for updates, etc. Paradise!
- Krssst 3y agoDid not happen on Android.
- CharlesW 3y agoBecause you can’t download alternate app stores directly from Google’s Play Store. This is a really interesting point — if the EU doesn’t require Apple to allow competitive app stores on App Store, discovery barriers largely neuter potential impacts.