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>To qualify for the entitlement, your app must: Be available on iOS in the European Union only kicking and screaming. i mean, yes, that is "complying". but it
by pxoe 3y ago
>To qualify for the entitlement, your app must: Be available on iOS in the European Union only
kicking and screaming. i mean, yes, that is "complying". but it is ridiculous. and, am i getting this right, just gonna create a bunch of "[browser name] EU Edition" apps, which is just gonna be wonderful. users can look forward to having something like Chrome (International) and Chrome EU (limited EU edition) be installed side by side, i guess. can we look forward to "[browser name] [country name] edition" per each country that'd fancy to have itself some regulation similar to that? that'd be so many browsers! dozens, hundreds! what an optimal solution.
- wvenable 3y agoThe app store hides apps that aren't available in your region -- even now.
- Hugsun 3y agoLast time I checked (~7 years ago) they didn't even share reviews between regions. It was infuriating in Iceland where for obvious reasons all but the most popular apps had less than 5 reviews.
- bhelkey 3y agoEU users should still be able to install the international versions of the apps, no? This they would see APP and APP (EU Edition).
- wvenable 3y agoI assume if you built an EU version of an app with, for example, your own browser engine then you wouldn't make the other "International" version available. What would be the point?
- bhelkey 3y agoIf you already have an international version, why would you prevent EU users from installing it? If you don't have an international audience, it wouldn't make sense to build two visions. But I imagine many apps want to target users outside the EU.
- baobun 3y agoThat's one way to bring the number of installs per app below Apple's arbitrary threshold so perhaps app devs and publishers will start doing that regardless. Good luck picking out the legit one among the clones. Apple may have a point about this being a security issue but only due to their hostile implementation. Beautiful.
- turquoisevar 3y agoInstalls only matter on iPhones in the EU. You can have 100 million installs in the US and it wouldn’t affect what you owe Apple. You can have a 100 million installs in the EU on iPad, again, doesn’t affect what you owe Apple.
- baobun 3y agoThe point was splitting up so it would be one app per EU country.. One for Germany, one for France, and so on.