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Apple opens iOS to 3rd-party app stores in Japan

New third-party iOS App Stores in Japan preserve user privacy, child safety

Apple is introducing alternative app stores and payment options in Japan to comply with a new competition law, while maintaining that platform-level security and child safety controls remain in place.

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Apple opens iOS to third-party app stores in Japan

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Apple makes changes to iOS software in face of stricter Japanese rules

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After Europe, Japan Orders Apple to Let iPhone Users Download Apps Outside of App Store

Apple on Wednesday said it has opened iPhones to alternative app stores in Japan to comply with new laws aimed at stoking competition in that country's smartphone market.

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Apple shakes up app rules in Japan with iOS 26.2 update

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Apple opens up iPhones in Japan to outside app stores

Fortnite Not Coming to iOS in Japan as Epic Games CEO Accuses Apple of 'Obstruction and Lawbreaking'

Epic Games is not going to bring Fortnite to iOS in Japan as promised because of the fees imposed by Apple's new App Store rules, Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney said on social media. Sweeney complained that Apple did not comply with Japan's Mobile Software Competition Act "honestly" and instead "launched another travesty of obstruction and lawbreaking in gross disrespect to the government and people of Japan".

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Epic’s Tim Sweeney says Apple’s ‘dishonesty’ and ‘gross disrespect’ to Japan is the reason Fortnite isn’t coming to iOS there

Epic had previously promised that Fortnite would be coming to iOS in Japan by the end of the year as a result of the Act, but now Sweeney says this won’t be happening, claiming that Apple has been “dishonest” in the way it’s implemented the required changes.