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sitwap: North Daktota wants to force apple and google to allow customers to side-load apps, skipping the app stores essentially. -- (link)

Posted by tRuMaN Feb 17 '21, 07:06

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First, it would make it unlawful for companies such as Google and Apple to make their app stores the "exclusive means" of distributing apps on their platforms. Second, it would prohibit those providers from requiring third parties to use their d (arstechnica.com)

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Incredibly powerful multinational corporations - finally, the war to determine if we need two Dakotas has begun. -- nm - crash davis Feb 17, 07:26 3
- but if there is only one dakota, how could people tell if they are in the south or north? -- nm - tRuMaN Feb 17, 07:34 2
  - the GPS app on their phones -- nm - crash davis Feb 17, 07:36 1
    - are you sure? -- nm - tRuMaN Feb 17, 07:53
Is this different than the bill that just got voted down? -- (link) - Mop Feb 17, 07:21 5
- I guess not, Ars didnt talk about a vote, just about the bill (which was written by the group that Epic started to fight the App stores) -- nm - tRuMaN Feb 17, 07:24 4
  - Don't mean this as chastising, but news sites need to stop saying "State X wants to do Y" just because some crazy-pants legislator introduces a bill. - Mop Feb 17, 07:59 3
    - well techinically a lobbiest group wrote the bill and then found someone to endorse it, but yes. -- nm - tRuMaN Feb 17, 08:07
    - Hey, the car manufacturers could've made one version of cars that pass CA emissions and then another version of the rest of the country - JD Feb 17, 08:06 1
      - Oh, and we've got our own version of gasoline and that doesn't impact that rest of the country -- nm - JD Feb 17, 08:07
Google has always allowed this. Apple forcing it is an issue, but the real issue is distribution. The app stores - decline Feb 17, 07:20 2
- Google has really really discouraged side loading with the last few updates to Android. -- nm - spamlet Feb 17, 07:21
- while I do understand that the 30% tax on sales seems steep, I agree with you. -- nm - tRuMaN Feb 17, 07:20

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