Since the EU passed the DMA or Digital Markets Act, things have not been going the way for Apple. There are a lot of new rules and regulations that the company has to follow. For example, the USB ports. However, it seems EU users will be getting a separate iPhone App Store.
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iPhone App store And DMA
In his monthly Power On newsletter, Mark Gurman of Bloomberg revealed that Apple intends to divide its present App Store into two versions. One is to follow the DMA and the other for “US and everywhere else. The EU iPhone app store will make it so large digital companies permit third-party payments and app stores to be integrated into their proprietary app stores.
Apple has contested several rulings made by the EU authority on the labeling of its services. In the past, the firm requested an investigation into whether to classify the iMessage service under the gatekeeper category, which requires apps to allow cross-platform functionality. More recently, the company informed the European Union that it operates five distinct App Stores rather than just one.
Its five App Stores were categorized as a single core platform service under the new tech regulations. The manufacturer of iPhones claimed that the laws had been improperly interpreted and implemented by EU officials. Apple later filed a plea in the General Court of Luxembourg. It stated that the European Commission concludes that the five App Stores are a single core platform service.
