Third-party app updates can run into a cutoff.
Apple will cut off third-party app store updates if your iPhone leaves the EU for a month
Submitted 3 months ago by BrikoX@lemmy.zip to technology@lemmy.zip
https://www.theverge.com/2024/3/7/24093437/apple-iphone-third-party-app-store-dma-eu
JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 3 months ago
How is that legal according to the DMA?
mark3748@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
They only have to comply while the device is within the EEA. You leave, you can’t access the 3rd party store. You can’t access the store, you can’t download anything from it.
When you return, you’re under the DMA and can access it again.
echo64@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I don’t want to be a “where’s your source” person. But is this something you actually know to be true, or are you assuming? From what inunderstand a lot of this is vaguely defined