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Subject: Re: Does Apple normally add the UK when the EU forces Apple
 to care about its customers?
Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2024 17:22:12 -0000 (UTC)
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Woody <harrogate3@ntlworld.com> wrote:
> On Fri 13/09/2024 17:35, Andrew wrote:
>> The news is replete with how the EU slowly but surely, one by one, forces
>> Apple to do what every decent company has already done in terms of app
>> stores (e.g., Microsoft & Google have always allowed alternative repos).
>> 
>> Now, finally, Apple is allowing its customer base that basic decency;
>> however, all the news says is that the EU forced Apple to be decent.
>> *Apple Will Make Alternative App Marketplaces and Browser Engines
>> Available on the iPad in the EU Starting Monday*
>> <https://www.macstories.net/news/apple-will-make-alternative-app-marketplaces-and-browser-engines-available-in-the-eu-starting-monday/>
>> "You may recall that in April, the European Commission has added
>> iPadOS to the products and services subject to the Digital Markets
>> Act (DMA). Before then, the DMA only applied to the iPhone, meaning
>> that, if you live in the EU, changes to iOS, like browser default
>> choices and alternative app marketplaces, are currently only
>> available on your iPhone. That changes on Monday"
>> *Update on iPadOS 18 apps distributed in the European Union*
>> <https://developer.apple.com/news/?id=4sn7e783>>
>> "Starting September 16:
>> Users in the EU can download iPadOS apps on the App Store
>> and through alternative distribution...
>> Alternative browser engines can be used in iPadOS apps."
>> 
>> As of Brexit, the UK is not formally in the EU - but that's a political
>> boundary (where the border-free Schengen Area is another such boundary).
>> 
>> My question, which those in the UK may be able to answer from experience,
>> is whether or not Apple extends common decencies forced upon it to the UK?
>> 
>> Do they?
> 
> Well it has happened with the micro USB that is now the power connector 
> for most phones outside Apple, so.......
> 
> 

The new iPhone has USB-C not micro USB.