Japan to regulate smartphone app stores to end Apple-Google duopoly

10 comments

1. Bold move cotton

2. Here comes the Yahoo! app store fuckin packed with random text and lookin like it’s from 2002 💀

3. Good luck. Japan is 60% iPhone, and that’s only going to change when Japanese android apps stop being ass.

4. In other words, keep Sony, Panasonic, etc from innovating and competing.

5. Will the new app stores stop working after 17:00?

6. Apple loves side loading. It fits perfectly with their no lock in policy and hands off approach. /S

   I think other countries have started the ball moving on this or something similar anyway.

7. Good luck with that!

8. I’d rather have confusing app layouts than oligopoly, so nice?

9. Oh god no! Docomo apps!!

10. Good. 3rd parties should be able to develop apps and access the shit on the Device. It would be like you buy a computer and are limited on what apps you can develop and put on it or what chips you could interact with. Finally some common sense tech intervention