Let the iPhone go! Official announcement of the first batch of third-party app stores for iOS

News on March 1, according to media reports, MacPaw announced that the company’s Setapp will be officially launched in the European Union in April as an alternative app store to Apple’s App Store.

Almost at the same time, Epic Games also announced that it will be launched on the iOS platform in the near future, and the popular game "Fortnite" will be launched on the Epic Games store.

The above-mentioned third-party app stores only support iOS 17.4 and subsequent versions. EU users can download and experience apps from these app stores.

As we all know, iOS has been a relatively closed ecosystem since its birth. From a hardware perspective, iOS is locked to Apple’s own devices; from a software perspective, Apple strictly controls third-party applications and only allows them to be used in the App Store. distributed on.

However, due to the influence of the Digital Markets Act, Apple will open sideloading, and the upcoming official version of iOS 17.4 will officially relax restrictions on third-party app stores.

In addition, third-party browsers on iOS can use browser engines other than Webkit. For example, Chrome can use Chromium, and firefox can use its own Gecko engine.

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