Lee Duna@lemmy.nz to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 13 hours agoThrough gritted teeth, Apple and Google allow alternative app stores in Japanwww.theregister.comexternal-linkmessage-square53fedilinkarrow-up1556
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minus-squarekopasu22@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·3 hours agoThe full text of this act (translated to English) is available here: https://www.jftc.go.jp/file/MSCA_Guidelines_tentative_translation.pdf I haven’t read through the full text, but it does seem to specifically apply to only smartphones. The Switch is a mobile device but I think it’d be a hard case to make it count as a phone and a general computing platform like iPhone/Android.
The full text of this act (translated to English) is available here: https://www.jftc.go.jp/file/MSCA_Guidelines_tentative_translation.pdf
I haven’t read through the full text, but it does seem to specifically apply to only smartphones. The Switch is a mobile device but I think it’d be a hard case to make it count as a phone and a general computing platform like iPhone/Android.