WITH Manzana which will be forced to open up its ecosystem in the European Union by the Digital Markets Act (DMA), epic games recently managed to recover your developer account for iOS at least for the mentioned geographical area. This means not only the future return of a native version of Fortnite for the said operating system, but also the arrival of the Epic Game Store for this year.

The DMA, which will take effect on March 7, identified the products and services of six companies that were deemed to be porter or guardians, which are Alphabet (formerly the parent company of Google), Amazon, Apple, ByteDance (the company behind TikTok), Meta (formerly the parent company of Facebook), and Microsoft. Translation of the term porter In Spanish, this may sound like something positive, but in short, it indicates companies that have to open up their ecosystems to competition, and Apple obviously doesn’t like that.

Within the iOS ecosystem, DMA should translate into accepting payments and being able to distribute apps from media other than the App Store. However, Apps sold through a third-party platform must still be approved by Apple through notarization by the company itself to avoid potentially harmful content.

It appears that avoiding harm to users and some apparent laxity in the DMA has given Apple room to minimize the application of community regulations, because according to David Heinemeier Hansson, creator of framework of Ruby on Rails web applications and who is known as DHH, among the requirements for the Cupertino giant’s permission to go live third party store is following: “Provide Apple with a standby letter of credit from an A-rated financial institution in the amount of €1,000,000 to create adequate funds to support its developers and users.“.

The request to have one million euros, and also with some additional restrictions, sounds like an attempt by Apple to prevent as much as possible the emergence of stores that compete with the App Store, especially from small companies or even groups of people who intend to promote things similar or the same as F-Droid, one of the most famous and used third-party repositories on Android.

In a nutshell, It’s only a matter of time before the Epic Games Store provides official iOS supportwhich will allow the Tim Sweeney-led corporation to generate revenue through sales without paying the percentage that Apple takes with the App Store, evidently paving the way for Fortnite.

However, it is time to seriously think about what is happening with Apple, because it seems that this company has a hard time accepting the legislation approved by the European Union, which was also seen at the time with the introduction of USB for all devices. mobile devices, while at the same time they seem to have no complaints when it comes to complying with the Chinese government’s draconian and inhumane regulations. In fact, as far as the DMA is concerned, the requirements for third-party developers who want to set up shop would not be the only attempt to charge a price for applying the regulations.