• utopiah@lemmy.ml
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    12 hours ago

    banned from EU app stores

    What even is that? Aren’t the 2 app official app stores American anyway?

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      11 hours ago

      Yes they are based in america but they have to comply with regional laws since they operate internationally. the apps available in these stores, and the laws that apply to them, differ per country.

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        9 hours ago

        If I understood correctly “they” here means Google and Apple because they are corporations that sell products, advertisement brokerage, SaaS, physical devices, etc in the EU. They have to comply otherwise they wouldn’t be able to make money if one of the most profitable markets. They solely chose to comply because it puts their baseline at risk, not solely because of regional laws.