@sdw this stinks.

@sdw 🤯

@sdw And of course developers will get blamed for their apps not being accessible.

@sdw Rancid. It’s my device and I should be able to install whatever I want on it, and *when* I do so, Apple shouldn’t get to decide to revoke some apps. This past six months has been terrible for my opinion of them.

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@sdw hilarious, I hope the EU continues to file more and more and more antitrust violations against apple.

@sdw strange it is not connected to your creditcard, which determines which apps you can download. If an app has an EU and non-EU version, you won’t the able to download the non-EU version, even if the EU version doesn’t work properly

@sdw holy crap…just when I thought this “feature” couldn’t get more absurd

@sdw This might actually get their wrists slapped — like the US, the EU has a very broad definition of ‘EU person’

Unless that timer is *really* long. Like… months.

@sdw This is stupid, EU citizens still are EU citizens even outside the EU! It's the same as following GDPR only if a website visitor's IP is from a EU country 🙄

@sdw omg the sheer volume of absurdity apple is willing to go to. 😜

@sdw In other words: Digital Markets Act analogs are necessary in other jurisdictions.

@sdw The thing rn is that, even though ive got the update there are no versions of alt-stores that work. And obviously no mention of it in the update notes.

@sdw which means that Apple is using our geolocation (it's a personal data, right?) when we install or upgrade an app? Did we sign-up for that *explicitly* and can we opt-out?
Just sayin, in my GDPR-country ;)

cc @aeris

@sdw oh, so installing apps from alternative marketplaces *will* be comparatively insecure because Apple are making sure that you have to be in the EU to get security updates. Assholes.

@sdw The amount of engineering effort put into keeping their walled garden intact is impressive.

@sdw I suspect other at least some jurisdictions will catch up soon, as people (voters) ask why they don’t have the same privileges.

The question I still have is how they detect that. Geographical restrictions are usually very easy to bypass so I've never even seen this "only in the EU" as any significant obstacle worth one's attention.

But their maniacal insistence on enforcing their stupid DRM outside of the EU — not even just for non-EU accounts but the "physically located" part — can't be good for their reputation, to put it mildly.