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Alternative iOS App Stores Only Work for 'Grace Period' When Traveling Outside of EU (www.macrumors.com)

submitted 8 months ago by CAVOK@lemmy.world to c/europe@feddit.de

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[–] DrFuggles@feddit.de 22 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I mean, it's absolutely petty, yes. OTOH, while it worded as being aimed at EU users spending a short while outside of the US, it's very clearly aimed at non-EU citizens trying to also profit from the EU ruling.

Example: if a US citizen takes a weeklong trip to Italy, they now have access to third-party stores, but Apple basically makes them unusable as soon as they're stateside. Can't have nice things.

[–] Vincent@feddit.nl 6 points 8 months ago

Even if it's not aimed at EU citizens, they're collateral damage. And the only reason is that they don't want non-EU citizens to be able to benefit from this.

(The security risks this carries for EU citizens prove that this is not for security.)