Apple Confirms Widespread iPhone Changes Coming To Millions Of iPads

When the European Union introduced the Digital Markets Act, it designated platforms as gatekeepers, with the intention of opening things up to prevent monopoly abuses. As a result, Apple has changed the iPhone ecosystem radically for EU users, and now, it’s just been confirmed, similar changes are coming for iPad users.

Apple said, “This week, the European Commission designated iPadOS a gatekeeper platform under the Digital Markets Act. Apple will bring our recent iOS changes for apps in the European Union to iPadOS later this fall, as required. Developers can choose to adopt the Alternative Business Terms for Apps in the EU that will include these additional capabilities and options on iPadOS, or stay on Apple’s existing terms.

The changes referred to are comprehensive, allowing alternative app marketplaces to exist which let users download apps from them, rather than just the Apple App Store. It also permits users to pick a different browser for use on the device, and the browser doesn’t have to be based on WebKit, as browsers are on the iPhone in the U.S., U.K. and elsewhere.Users can also choose their own favorite default search engine, something which has changed the landscape in the EU already, it seems.

In these alternate marketplaces, app developers must pay a Core Technology Fee for downloads over the first million installs, but Apple has now said that if the same app is installed on the iPhone and iPad, that only counts as one install, helping to keep that one million threshold at bay.

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