Why Are Tech Reporters Sleeping On The Biggest App Store Story?

297 · Alex Russell · Jan. 1, 2024, midnight
The tech news is chockablock[1] with antitrust rumblings and slow-motion happenings. Through eagle-eyed press coverage, regulatory reports, and legal discovery the shady dealings of Apple and Google's app stores are now comprehensively documented and pressure for change has built to an unsustainable level. Something's gotta give. This is the backdrop to the biggest app store story nobody is writing about: on pain of steep fines, gatekeepers are opening up to competing browsers. This, in turn, wi...