{"id":39815,"date":"2023-06-20T16:14:29","date_gmt":"2023-06-20T20:14:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=39815"},"modified":"2023-06-20T16:14:29","modified_gmt":"2023-06-20T20:14:29","slug":"proposed-japanese-law-for-alternate-app-stores","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/20\/proposed-japanese-law-for-alternate-app-stores\/","title":{"rendered":"Proposed Japanese Law for Alternate App Stores"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/appleinsider.com\/articles\/23\/06\/16\/japan-law-will-require-apple-to-allow-alternate-iphone-app-stores\">Andrew Orr<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=36393809\">Hacker News<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/technology\/japan-open-up-apple-google-dominated-phone-apps-competition-2023-06-17\/\">Reuters<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/appleinsider.com\/articles\/23\/06\/16\/japan-law-will-require-apple-to-allow-alternate-iphone-app-stores\">\n<p>Japan is the next country to impose regulations on these companies, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.japantimes.co.jp\/news\/2023\/06\/16\/business\/japan-apple-google-apps-stores\/\">according to<\/a> <em>The Japan Times<\/em>. It will require Apple and Google to let users download apps through services other than their app stores. The government aims to stimulate competition and believes it could reduce app prices.<\/p>\n<p>The government will compile a list of prohibited actions for OS providers to prevent them from showing bias towards their services and payment platforms.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, the two companies will be compelled to enable users to make payments through third-party platforms.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/24\/sideloading-rumored-for-ios-17\/\">Sideloading Rumored for iOS 17<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/06\/eu-approves-digital-markets-act-and-digital-services-act\/\">EU Approves Digital Markets Act and Digital Services Act<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andrew Orr (Hacker News, Reuters): Japan is the next country to impose regulations on these companies, according to The Japan Times. It will require Apple and Google to let users download apps through services other than their app stores. The government aims to stimulate competition and believes it could reduce app prices. The government will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2023-06-20T20:14:31Z","apple_news_api_id":"509ec21d-a27a-42d0-ae22-cf5eee9d970b","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2023-06-20T20:14:31Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AUJ7CHaJ6QtCuIs9e7p2XCw","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[248,2085,91,784,522,31,2321,1714,209,2132],"class_list":["post-39815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-android","tag-antitrust","tag-appstore","tag-google-play-store","tag-inapppurchase","tag-ios","tag-ios-17","tag-japan","tag-legal","tag-sideloading"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39815"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39816,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39815\/revisions\/39816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}