(1) choose third-party Apps or App Stores as defaults for categories appropriate to the App or App Store;
What does "appropriate" mean? From apples POV they will probably push that no "sensitive" default is ever appropriate for any App or AppStore and how is it handled? If I would be Apple acting like apple did in recent years I would require such apps to be white listed in a extremely cumbersome system which requires and Apple Dev account, allows later revocation by Apple and requires resigning every time you push a update which will always takes weeks and gets randomly denied because they supposedly detected malware or security flaws in you app. Making it "de-facto" impossible to set defaults to 3rd party apps.
(3) hide or delete Apps or App Stores provided or preinstalled by the App Store owner or any of its business partners
Hide doesn't mean disable, it just means "make it not visible" and makes this paragraph in the end pointless.
I suggest you read the full text or at least in part.
>choose third-party Apps or App Stores as 13 defaults for categories appropriate to the App or 14 App Store;
Categories appreciate to the app means you can set a non default browser to handle urls and a image viewer to handle images herein appropriate means that the application can handle that type of content it is not an opening for apple to decide what kinds of apps are appropriate in the normal English language definition of the word.
I don't think merely deleting the icon for an app but opening it in response to a link would meet the intent of the law but it ought to just say disable.
Facebook app store and Epic App Store are about to double turn their faucets on.
But you are right, the lobbyists involved here are playing for seriously high stakes. I guess someone finally found a way to make Apple spend all that cash on hand.
dathinab|4 years ago
(1) choose third-party Apps or App Stores as defaults for categories appropriate to the App or App Store;
What does "appropriate" mean? From apples POV they will probably push that no "sensitive" default is ever appropriate for any App or AppStore and how is it handled? If I would be Apple acting like apple did in recent years I would require such apps to be white listed in a extremely cumbersome system which requires and Apple Dev account, allows later revocation by Apple and requires resigning every time you push a update which will always takes weeks and gets randomly denied because they supposedly detected malware or security flaws in you app. Making it "de-facto" impossible to set defaults to 3rd party apps.
(3) hide or delete Apps or App Stores provided or preinstalled by the App Store owner or any of its business partners
Hide doesn't mean disable, it just means "make it not visible" and makes this paragraph in the end pointless.
michaelmrose|4 years ago
>choose third-party Apps or App Stores as 13 defaults for categories appropriate to the App or 14 App Store;
Categories appreciate to the app means you can set a non default browser to handle urls and a image viewer to handle images herein appropriate means that the application can handle that type of content it is not an opening for apple to decide what kinds of apps are appropriate in the normal English language definition of the word.
I don't think merely deleting the icon for an app but opening it in response to a link would meet the intent of the law but it ought to just say disable.
vsareto|4 years ago
Apple's about to turn some money faucets on
runawaybottle|4 years ago
But you are right, the lobbyists involved here are playing for seriously high stakes. I guess someone finally found a way to make Apple spend all that cash on hand.
unknown|4 years ago
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