By far the best summary I've seen. Most of this is just summarizing Apple's plan (there's a lot to summarize) but Gruber is incise as ever for the bits of commentary sprinkled about.
My favorite example is the last paragraph:
> The delicious irony in Apple’s not knowing if these massive, complicated proposals will be deemed DMA-compliant is that their dealings with the European Commission sound exactly like App Store developers’ dealings with Apple. Do all the work to build it first, and only then find out if it passes muster with largely inscrutable rules interpreted by faceless bureaucrats.
why? it may be that american big businesses are too big that they have to be neutered but that has to be done.
why is apple trying to reinvent the wheel?
isn't play store model almost good enough? like google will enable me to set f-droid as my default store and will let me auto update apps. that is good enough to satisfy the letter and spirit of the EU DMA Act so their notarization and all other shenanigans about security and integrity of the platform and all that are bs.
secondly, if lets say f-droid wants to set up a repo, why should they have to submit credit reporting, they are practically more trustworthy than facebook or google or even apple when it comes to running an app store and they have a glorious history to back that claim up.
again, the CTF seems to be aimed at paid apps or am i wrong? would f-droid have to pay apple the privilege to self hosting and distributing free apps?
> again, the CTF seems to be aimed at paid apps or am i wrong? would f-droid have to pay apple the privilege to self hosting and distributing free apps?
They would, unless both they, and the developer of the apps being distributed, fit into the “educational institution, government agency, or nonprofit” exemption.
My favorite example is the last paragraph:
> The delicious irony in Apple’s not knowing if these massive, complicated proposals will be deemed DMA-compliant is that their dealings with the European Commission sound exactly like App Store developers’ dealings with Apple. Do all the work to build it first, and only then find out if it passes muster with largely inscrutable rules interpreted by faceless bureaucrats.