Yesterday Apple released iOS 17.4 (and iPadOS 17.4), the model which adheres to the EU’s newly gone into effect Digital Markets Act (DMA), even when Apple’s compliance appears to be extremely begrudging and at occasions resentment-filled.
You’ll be able to inform from its press releases on the matter, and the theme continues right now with a help doc that outlines what occurs if an EU citizen with entry to a 3rd get together app retailer leaves the EU “for too lengthy”. You guessed it – no extra entry to the third get together app retailer for you.
In case you had been questioning – what “too lengthy” means on this context is rarely outlined. However hey, there is a silver lining of kinds – Apple says “for those who depart the EU for short-term journey, you will proceed to have entry to various app marketplaces for a grace interval”. A “grace interval”, how good of Apple to grant you that, you see?
Okay so for example you do for no matter cause determine to go away the EU “for too lengthy”. You will not have the ability to obtain any further third get together app shops, and the apps you already put in from third get together app shops aren’t going to be up to date by the shop(s) you bought them from. The apps will nonetheless operate, except the developer is a type of that likes to throw a “replace the app to the most recent model to proceed” display in your face infrequently.
This all occurs as a result of “you could bodily be situated within the EU” with a view to use the brand new options Apple was pressured to introduce by the DMA. You additionally must have an Apple ID set to an EU nation. Alternatively, Apple boasts about preserving your privateness by not amassing your gadget’s location with a view to test whether or not you might be the truth is bodily within the EU – that’s decided “utilizing on-device processing with solely an indicator of eligibility despatched to Apple”.
