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Epic Games Challenges Apple’s Dominance With New iOS App Store
The Epic Games Store gives iPhone users in the EU an alternative to Apple’s App Store for the first time.
“The alternative app store could become the most visible way for showing how competition can work,” Andreas Schwab, a member of the European Parliament who helped draft the DMA, tells WIRED. The launch of its iOS version means the company’s European users can now also visit Epic.download to get the Epic Games Store for their phones, which can be used in turn to download iPhone apps. Since 2019, cofounders Riley Testut and Shane Gill had been running what they describe as an “unofficial” alternative app store, where users around the world sent the duo their Apple ID and password in order to be able to access AltStore’s video game console emulator, Delta.
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