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Japan to open up Apple and Google app stores to competition (www.japantimes.co.jp)
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Japan is joining the EU in requiring mobile platforms open up for third party software, and allow third party payment processing.

Perhaps the increasing global regulatory pressure will make Apple concede on blocking third party software sources in general.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Got it, makes sense. Appreciate the example you gave here – that's a believable use case for something like this.