Look, I appreciate what Canada is doing but Cory (@pluralistic a Canadian himself btw) offers a much better way to retaliate:
"What's standing in the way of a Canadian industrial policy that focuses on raiding the sky-high margins of American monopolists with third-party add-ons, mods and jailbreaks?
Only the #IP laws that Canada has agreed to in order to get tariff-free access to American markets. You know, the access that Trump has promised to end..." (cont)
@joeo10 @pluralistic The European Union already forced Apple to allow users the installation of apps from alternative marketplaces.
But I don't know, what actual conditions developers have to consider when apps are installed from an alternative marketplace.
But grab them by the money.
@db_geek @joeo10 @pluralistic There was a really good talk on this at FOSDEM this weekend. As could probably be predicted, it's not as easy as you'd really want... https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event/fosdem-2025-5488-a-free-software-app-store-for-ios-the-app-fair-project-s-perspective-on-the-dma/
(Sadly the video is still being processed, should be there in a few days)