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Apple was just forced to crack open its App Store — but the changes are already being called 'hot garbage'
(ca.finance.yahoo.com)
this post was submitted on 28 Jan 2024
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While it would be nice to imagine this, the reality is that anyone who is part of the Apple walled-garden isn't going to suddenly abandon it because of hypothetical functionality they never had previously anyway. And anyone who has resisted Apple this long... Well, there were probably other reasons driving that long before this.
I can't imagine this having any material impact on marketshare or profit. It will take harsher regulatory action for anything to happen.
Have you seen the maximum penalty for this action? It's pretty harsh.
"the Commission is also empowered to adopt additional remedies such as obliging a gatekeeper to sell a business or parts of it, or banning the gatekeeper from acquiring additional services related to the systemic non-compliance"
Imagine if they forced Apple to sell their iPhone business. The USA did that once when Ma Bell had a monopoly on phones.