Apple recently released a swathe of massive changes to the way it distributes apps on iPhone in the EU. As part of its plan to comply with the new Digital Markets Act, Apple has introduced new ways to distribute and download apps on iPhone through alternative app marketplaces.
To discuss the new changes, how Apple is handling them, and what they might mean to developers, I recently sat down with MacPaw, the development team behind the popular macOS subscription service Setapp, which lets users subscribe to a library of Mac apps for a monthly fee. In its most rudimentary form, it is an alternative app marketplace for macOS, the kind Apple must now allow on iPhone. So who better to discuss these changes with than developers at the forefront of this service?
