Apple Opens Third-Party App Stores in Brazil Under CADE Deal
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Gadget HacksApple Opens Third-Party App Stores in Brazil Under CADE Dealgadgethacks.comApple Opens iOS to Third-Party App Stores in Brazil But Keeps the Keys Apple announced today that iPhone users in Brazil can install apps from third-party stores and pay for digital goods through alternative payment systems, making Brazil the first major market outside Europe to receive these changes. The new options arrive under a formal settlement with Brazil's competition regulator CADE and take effect immediately as part of iOS 26.5, Apple announced. Whether they produce meaningfully lower prices or genuine choice for Brazilian iPhone users is a different question. Apple says developers selling digital goods in Brazil will pay the same or less than before. Competition economists who studied the structurally similar EU framework reached a different conclusion. The authorization requirements, notarization rules, and fee architecture Apple has built around these changes preserve a great deal of platform control by design. How CADE forced Apple's hand The settlement traces back to a
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