Japan forces Apple and Google to open their mobile platforms • The Register
Japan forces Apple and Google to open their mobile platforms • The Register
DMA-like law passes in pursuit of a more innovative and open smartphone market
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Google allows that though or do they mean access of Google Play via 3rd party apps?
Not that I am saying it might not be necessary to include Google from the start, sets a good precedence and prevents a future where they might go the Apple route.
Just hope both Google and Apple won't restrict opening up to Japanese market only. But who am I kidding, they will.
I think this means allowing the listing of third party app stores inside the Google Play Store - so you could search for F-Droid in Google Play for example instead of downloading and installing the
.apkmanually.I don’t like that, if I am going through the play store, I only want things that have gone through googles vetting process, flawed though it may be.
F-Droid could go through it, the thing that is prohibited is for Google to bar them just because they are a competitor.
If they didn't open up to anyone else when EU implemented it back in March/April, they won't do it now.