[klaustopher]

From a business point, I can totally understand what Apple is doing. Making this as painful and unpredictable (as a developer you never know if your app will be successfull and gain more than 1 million installs) is the way to keep developers using the old contract and keep them on the app store. This makes sense for Apple to find every loophole possible ...

As a consumer, and an Apple users, I want them to be slapped as hard as possible for how they implement this.

[frizlab]

Funny how things go. As a consumer especially, but even as a developer I don’t want the DMA to succeed and purposefully want iOS to be a walled garden. It’s literally one of the reasons why I’m on iOS!

[klaustopher]

That's the nice thing about the DMA ... Nobody forces you to install a 3rd party app store, nobody forces you to install apps from websites, nobody forces you out of the walled garden. For you nothing changes. Those that want to use their 1000€ device differently than you now have the chance to.

[Nevermark]

I doubt it. "Walled" and "Safety" are getting confused here.

I think you like the App Store for its safety. You trust it, enough to be happy with it.

What does that have to do with wanting others to be denied alternatives? That deliver however much safety and different benefits that other people want?

If safety is one of Apple store's selling points, then competitive app stores will push Apple to deliver even more safety. Perhaps new forms of safety others pioneer. Apple didn't invent security or sandboxes. While also encouraging it to loosen non-safety driven (and therefore quietly non-customer friendly) restrictions on innovation.

That can only benefit you.

[internetter]

For years Apple has placed deliberately crafted limitations on 3rd party apps that put theirs at an advantage. They've done anything but treat developers fairly. If they did, maybe this legislation was unneeded, but with the way they've been acting, it feels like a long time coming.

Edit: self plug: https://boehs.org/node/private-apis

[rchaud]

Opening up the app store doesn't force you step outside the walled garden.