Japan moves to ban Google, Apple from blocking app store competitors
Japan moves to ban Google, Apple from blocking app store competitors
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Japan moves to ban Google, Apple from blocking app store competitors
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Praise be.
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Now do it for game consoles
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Yakuza is heading your way
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Yes! It’s good they’re doing this. It would be better if they weren’t letting Nintendo brick homebrewed consoles.
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Japan was the first one to prohibit tinkering with game saves and consoles, they aren't going to revert it now.
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If there's one thing Japan loves, it is economical competition. There are like 40 different ways to pay at a shop, it's absurd.
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Innovation and competition at it's peak: You get to choose the color of your noose.
But (presumably) no cash or crypto because someone has to take a 3% cut.
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Surprisingly a lot of Japan is cash only. Stores like this also have cash inserts built in.
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That's probably because toxic corporate culture (we-ell, one can sometimes find contributions of heroes from Japan into FOSS projects, so maybe not so toxic, especially when you look at NetBSD) they already have, so they simply can't afford breaking market laws, not in the slightest.
The rest think they can, which is wrong.
The economic stagnation in numbers is regrettable, though. I would prefer countries like Japan to grow (not on the map, I mean playing tall). And cultures.
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And yet everyone will pay with cash.
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That Q+ looking one near the bottom left is how Apple Pay came to be in Japan.
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That's hardly a bad thing unless you can't use the most common way (e.g. paying by credit/debit card) in shops.
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If only that worked on dlsite
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Is there some science to what facilitates common standards vs. dotzens of islands? Convenience of the user is only one factor (if at all), see printers.
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With that many options, it's your bad if the card doesn't work. Wow haha
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no klarna...... ABSOLUTE W
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Does that mean I can get a 3rd party eShop on my Nintendo Switch? 😆
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Ha, that would be excellent. Don't forget Sony and PlayStation.
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Haha yeah sure. That will never happen.
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Yes you can! And Nintendo will then sue your ass off :-D
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Me: but I'm completely following the law!
Nintendo: Your point?
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I wish, but this seems specifically aimed at smartphones only. However, this could open the door for Nintendo to make their own eshop for Android or Apple, and I suspect that's what the gov is going for because it would directly benefit Japanese companies at the expense of foreign ones.
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