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benoauyesterday at 1:58 PM2 repliesview on HN

Sounds similar to Apple's "Core Technology Fee", literally a mechanism for sabotaging third party app distribution in the EU.


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Elfeneryesterday at 3:40 PM

This is a very big oversight in that EU law.

Allowing third-party "app stores" is completely useless when all apps must be approved by the operating system company.

It's also being abused by google (technically, will be, very soon), I guess they saw that since the legal framework for this kind of thing has now been written, they can do it too.

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gumby271yesterday at 2:53 PM

Except at least there are alternatives to Unity without replacing your entire OS and hardware.