Apple iPhone’s new legal tryst, while Canva finds value in Europe to rival Adobe

It’s been brewing for a while, and I was reserving my opinion till the contours of this became clear. In January, Apple emphasised a change in policy that would also enable the likes of Nvidia’s GeForce Now and Xbox Cloud Gaming to have dedicated apps available. Another allegation is, “Apple has denied users access to digital wallets that would have provided a wide variety of enhanced features and denied digital wallet developers—often banks—the opportunity to provide advanced digital payments services to their own customers.” Partly true, and I can reference the India context to this – Apple Pay doesn’t work in India, because it doesn’t have the necessary licenses. As this lawsuit proceeds, questions will inevitably be asked about how Apple’s app approval process, limitations imposed by the core such as PhoneKit and WebKit tools, the share of each transaction or subscription routed through the App Store and parallels will be drawn to how the European Union has effectively made Apple rework iOS for phones sold in that part of the world – option to have an alternative app marketplace on the iPhone that will be able to distribute apps, as well as alternative browser engines for web browsers and in-app experiences. Now in its arsenal are three apps from the UK based Serif, namely Affinity Designer, Affinity Photo and Affinity Publisher, available across Apple’s devices as well as the Microsoft Windows computing devices.