There's no secondary stores that present it with competition. That is correct, but right now it is the only game in town. > That doesn't mean it has no value or that we should get rid of it entirely. > App Store review is not perfect and no one expects it to be.īut Apple is clearly presenting it as such. 'Example App is asking me to allow it to connect to ? Well, they own that, don't they? Why wouldn't I allow that?' but there are third-party advertising, analytics, and fingerprinting services that allow you to CNAME them as subdomains of your domain to evade ad-blocker signature recognition.Īnd, of course, no user could ever be expected to figure any of this out if asked in a prompt. domains that are rooted in a zone the developer has proven ownership of, would be fine. You'd think that maybe restricting connections to e.g. One other obvious 'Turing-hard' spyware side-channel, is that it's basically up to the application developer to come up with a list of Internet domains it should be able to connect to, to put into the app's entitlements and it's up to humans at Apple to determine whether that list is sane - often by starting up the app with syscalls to the network stack shimmed/traced, doing packet captures, and seeing what the app says to each of the domains it lists itself as entitled to talk to. Fines are up to 10% of global revenue for the first offense, and 20% for repeat offenses. This includes CTAs in settings to encourage users to subscribe to Gatekeeper services, and ranking their own services above others in selection and advertising portalsĪfter the Act is signed by the Council and the European Parliament in September, Apple, Google, Amazon, and other 'Gatekeepers' will have six months to comply. * Use existing hardware and software features without competitive prejudice.

They lay out concrete examples like file transfer * Make core messaging functionality interoperable. * Use any messaging app and choose to make it default

* User any browser and browser engine and choose to make it default * Use any voice assistant and choose to make it default * Use third party payment providers and choose to make them default * Install any App Store and choose to make it default As an iPhone user, this will enable me to: This is easily one of the most expansive Acts regarding computing devices passed in my lifetime.

Doomsday Paradise for apple instal