Apple will reportedly offer a different App Store specifically for the European Union (EU) to meet the requirements of the Digital Markets Act (DMA) bill that will come into effect on March 7, according to a Bloomberg report.
Through the DMA, tech companies will have to allow third-party app stores, allow sideloading of apps and allow developers to offer alternative payments outside of the Apple or Google ecosystem. Only the EU will accept this different store because in other markets no bill like DMA is enforced. In Japan online stores are only required to allow payments outside the cheaper store ecosystem as no cut is taken by the store operator.
In addition to changes to the store, Apple is also believed to be making changes to Siri, Facetime and iMessage in the EU. Among the EU's previous requests is to allow cross-platform messaging with users not being tied to just one messaging platform.
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