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Japan forces Apple and Google to allow third-party app stores and payments (self.apple_enthusiast)
submitted 10 months ago by Beaver to c/[email protected]
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https://www.theregister.com/2024/06/13/japan_smartphone_software_law/

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 10 months ago (2 children)

The law allows local authorities to name "designated providers" of a certain scale – currently only achieved by Apple and Google – and require those providers to do three things:

  • Allow third-party app stores on their devices;
  • Allow application developers to use third-party billing services;
  • Enable users to change default settings with simple procedures, and offer choice screens for tools like browsers;

And it forbids them doing three more:

  • Engage in any form of preferential treatment of their services over those of competitors in the display of search results without justifiable reason;
  • Use acquired data about competing applications for their own applications;
  • Prevent application developers from using features controlled by the OS with the same level of performance as the one used by Designated Providers.

This.... this is amazing

[–] Beaver 12 points 10 months ago

Japan is a smart country, I mean look at the Shinkansen.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Is that last one granting access to closed APIs?

That’s a double edged sword if I ever heard one.