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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] 2 points 1 year ago

This is a great example. Vape apps were even allowed on the App Store for a while, then Apple banned them all of a sudden. There’s a general level of unpredictability with many categories of apps

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