Apple App Ecosystem Changes in Europe: Why App Developers are Unhappy?

New Delhi: Apple has announced major changes to the Apple Store and the iOS operating system in Europe in response to the European Union’s Digital Markets Act, allowing users within the EU to download apps and make purchases outside of the App Store from March. The company will also allow software developers to distribute their apps via alternate stores, and opt out of using Apple’s in-app payment system.

While the changes should ideally be welcomed by app makers who have been demanding for the same for long, many of them now call the changes vague and misleading, even farcical and falling far short of meeting the EU regulations. ET explains what the standoff is all about…