Apple may allow third-party app stores on iPhone in next update - GamesIndustry.biz

Apple is reportedly readying to let third-party app stores connected iOS successful its adjacent large bundle update.

According to Bloomberg, the determination is being encouraged by the EU's caller Digital Markets Act, which seeks to prohibition ample level holders from "gatekeeping" bundle connected their devices.

The caller regularisation says that users indispensable beryllium allowed to instal and usage third-party apps, arsenic good arsenic beryllium capable to sideload bundle by downloading straight – thing Apple has historically not permitted connected its hardware.

This volition besides springiness developers the enactment of which app store to merchandise products on, which could mean circumnavigating Apple's 30% App Store cut. Companies person until March 6, 2024 to comply with the rule.

Bloomberg reported that Apple is inactive considering "mandating definite information requirements," which includes verification connected outer apps and imaginable fees. It is besides inactive undecided connected whether to let third-party outgo systems – a determination that led to a complex suit betwixt Apple and Epic Games past year.

An probe is besides underway successful the UK regarding Apple and Google's quality to restrict unreality gaming crossed mobile devices. The Competition and Market Authority's concern is that the 2 firms person "an effectual duopoly connected mobile ecosystems," and could question to restrict unreality gaming options from their stores and hardware.