iOS 17.4 came out last month with monumental changes for iPhone owners in the EU, including the ability to use third party app stores, and pay for apps and services outside of Apple’s App Store.
This was made possible by force – namely, the European Digital Markets Act made Apple allow these things, otherwise they never would have happened. A similar case of a ‘walled garden’ impenetrable to third parties has so far been the ability to pay for stuff using the iPhone’s NFC functionality, which the company restricts to only its own service, Apple Pay. That, however, will change in the EU,…
