this post was submitted on 15 Jan 2024
468 points (98.5% liked)

Technology

59095 readers
3753 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.

Our Rules

  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related content.
  3. Be excellent to each another!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed

Approved Bots

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
L3s
[email protected]
[email protected]
L4s
enu
468
App Store to Be 'Split in Two' Ahead of EU iPhone Sideloading Deadline (www.macrumors.com)
submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/technology
136 comments fedilink hide all child comments
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] MeanEYE 16 points 9 months ago (1 children)

This will have impact, on Apple's revenue, which is really what they only care about.

[–] nbafantest 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

What number do you think? I bet there is no decrease in Apples App store revenue

[–] MeanEYE 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

If there's another place to buy iPhone apps, that means any purchase there is purchase which doesn't give Apple money.

[–] nbafantest 1 points 9 months ago

Not really, it's possible those purchases might never have happened at all.

If possibility of a 3rd party app store steals customers from Android, it's possible this raises the App stores revenue.