Circuit court reinstates antitrust ruling against Apple
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Federal Regional Court of 1st Region gives company 90 days to implement app market changes ordered by CADE

The Federal Regional Court of the 1st Region (TRF-1) has overturned a trial ruling and reinstated an injunction imposed by the Administrative Council for Economic Defense (Cade) on Apple, as part of an investigation into alleged abuse of dominant position in the app distribution market for iOS devices. According to the ruling, the company will have 90 days to implement the changes mandated by the antitrust authority.

  • hummingbird@lemmy.worldEnglish
    681·
    3 days ago

    Hopefully the court was clever enought to specify that the side loading must not be more difficult than installing via the store. Apple will for sure make it as complicated and user hostile as possible so they fulfill the ruling without having any practical impact.

    • Farid@startrek.websiteEnglish
      23·
      2 days ago

      Technically, sideloading is possible already, but you need a developer account, you’re limited to 3 sideloaded apps at a time, and you have to renew them every week.

      So the more difficult way already exists.

      • FundMECFS@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        10·
        2 days ago

        There are ways without the dev account (faked certificate), but if you use a VPN, or update your Os, apple will blacklist your device. And you also need to have some very specific DNS settings blocking a bunch of apple domains. @avieshek@lemmy.world is an expert.

          • Avieshek@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2·
            5 hours ago

            Here’s a link to the Guide: https://is.gd/sideloading

            I focus on free methods hence a bunch of things one needs to read through first like revokes in order to avoid them. Even if you go with the paid route, there are services that allow you to gain a certificate for much less as they distribute the price of one developer account to multiple users which is in the form of a private cert. The tutorial is supposed to guide you through the usage of enterprise certificates instead as it allows to sideload for free.

            I do moderate this community for announcements & discussions: !sideloading@lemmy.world

    • Constant Pain@lemmy.worldEnglish
      14·
      2 days ago

      This will not fly here. It’ will be considered “bad faith” and will incur in penalties.

      They’ll probably try tho, CADE will protest and the judge will make an adjustment to the rulling.

    • lars@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
      6·
      3 days ago

      Any similarities to Windows Explorer are unintentional and of course too retro to be ironic