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Apple should follow eu laws if it wants to do business withe eu. I know, sounds crazy right?

My suggestion would give consumers an additional choice. Sounds like that is something you are against? I thought that this was what this was all about.

Dma offers exactly that. Consumers can (or will be able to) choose to use apple defaults or not at any time of owning the device

As long as consumers can choose to download WhatsApp from the App Store and are then not forced to use some tracking Meta store.

Dma is mostly about choice for a couple of developers. Not for users. No way will Epic publish games on their own and Apples store, they did not do it with the Epic Store either. Consumers did not have a choice where to buy when Epic bought exclusive access.

You make it sound as if the Apple App Store did not track you.

Afaik on Android exactly this happens, consumers can download Whatsapp from google play or if they want, they may sideload it. Epic was not allowed to publish games on app store after avoiding 30% tax, so consumers were not able to install it from app store anyway so again, with this law, consumers in eu that may want to sideload instead of doing nothing at all, will be able to So just as I said, consumer takes decisions what apps to install and how to install them instead of apple. If you don't want to use sideloading - don't use it

Exactly. Just like Apple follows Chinese laws, they should follow EU laws.

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