In what is being described as a shocking turn of events, iPhone maker Apple is making some serious changes as the Digital Markets Act of the EU comes into play.
The company confirmed yesterday how it was going to allow users to switch to Android more easily and that would be possibly by fall of next year.
The news comes as the DMA comes into play today. We’ve already been hearing quite a bit from Apple’s point of view in terms of what other preparations it's making on this front.
It previously spoke about showing support for other app stores, adding new business clauses for developers in the EU region, and also including a variety of options for mobile browser screens. Moreover, the iPhone maker added how it would include data portability to this latest offering and that would give rise to data that are more user-friendly in terms of shifting data from one device to the next.
To be more specific, this means making the shift from an iPhone to a non-iPhone device.
In case you’re super excited about the news, please hold on. The solution is yet to be up for grabs for users right now but seeing the tech giant make this huge commitment is news of its own. It hopes to have things ready by the fall of 2025, the firm adds. Moreover, such an announcement was produced with a detailed document that outlined the firm’s compliance plans as per the latest EU regulations.
This way, competition is all set to rise in the platform’s ecosystem by forcing the Cupertino firm to loosen the grip across the App Store as well as iOS. We’ve seen the iPhone maker behave cleverly by incorporating new fees so that developers may benefit. In this way, such people of interest could make easier switches, despite suffering serious backlash.
The DMA was also seen discussing matters such as data portability so that users could export data from the App Store to official third parties. For instance, images from iCloud could go to Google Photos. Similarly, users can benefit from downloading data via the company’s many other apps which could not have been possible in the past. Common examples include Mail, Bookmarks, Maps, Calendar, Notes, and Wallet Activity as a part of that list.
Apple has even given the green light to schedule downloads daily across the App Store for one month. The same is the case for downloads taking place every week for six months.
The company is yet to share more news in context to its latest project of making the shift to Android easier. It’s clearly something very new and very large in scale. It simply outlined how such changes could give rise to greater ease for mobile operating system providers to generate better solutions for data transfers from one iPhone to another non-Apple device.
Another interesting point worth mentioning is how Apple failed to outline the term Android as the biggest stakeholder that could benefit from this move. But clearly, Google users are the ones who would be most rewarded by this endeavor for obvious reasons.
In other news, critics are speaking about how Apple is yet to address the matters linked to users disabling iMessages to ensure new incoming texts arrive at Android. We are not sure if iPhone maker Apple has a new solution that would address such areas or not because Apple has yet to speak on this front in detail.
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The company confirmed yesterday how it was going to allow users to switch to Android more easily and that would be possibly by fall of next year.
The news comes as the DMA comes into play today. We’ve already been hearing quite a bit from Apple’s point of view in terms of what other preparations it's making on this front.
It previously spoke about showing support for other app stores, adding new business clauses for developers in the EU region, and also including a variety of options for mobile browser screens. Moreover, the iPhone maker added how it would include data portability to this latest offering and that would give rise to data that are more user-friendly in terms of shifting data from one device to the next.
To be more specific, this means making the shift from an iPhone to a non-iPhone device.
In case you’re super excited about the news, please hold on. The solution is yet to be up for grabs for users right now but seeing the tech giant make this huge commitment is news of its own. It hopes to have things ready by the fall of 2025, the firm adds. Moreover, such an announcement was produced with a detailed document that outlined the firm’s compliance plans as per the latest EU regulations.
This way, competition is all set to rise in the platform’s ecosystem by forcing the Cupertino firm to loosen the grip across the App Store as well as iOS. We’ve seen the iPhone maker behave cleverly by incorporating new fees so that developers may benefit. In this way, such people of interest could make easier switches, despite suffering serious backlash.
The DMA was also seen discussing matters such as data portability so that users could export data from the App Store to official third parties. For instance, images from iCloud could go to Google Photos. Similarly, users can benefit from downloading data via the company’s many other apps which could not have been possible in the past. Common examples include Mail, Bookmarks, Maps, Calendar, Notes, and Wallet Activity as a part of that list.
Apple has even given the green light to schedule downloads daily across the App Store for one month. The same is the case for downloads taking place every week for six months.
The company is yet to share more news in context to its latest project of making the shift to Android easier. It’s clearly something very new and very large in scale. It simply outlined how such changes could give rise to greater ease for mobile operating system providers to generate better solutions for data transfers from one iPhone to another non-Apple device.
Another interesting point worth mentioning is how Apple failed to outline the term Android as the biggest stakeholder that could benefit from this move. But clearly, Google users are the ones who would be most rewarded by this endeavor for obvious reasons.
In other news, critics are speaking about how Apple is yet to address the matters linked to users disabling iMessages to ensure new incoming texts arrive at Android. We are not sure if iPhone maker Apple has a new solution that would address such areas or not because Apple has yet to speak on this front in detail.
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