@daringfireball the headline sounds like you’re aiming for a “gotcha you privacy hypocrites”, but the consistent theme is consumer protection. As an individual you’re least powerful, so you get privacy protections and get to know who you’re doing business with.
It’s quite common to require businesses addresses and director names to be public. (Sole) trader is a legal category for a single-person business. People operating as traders will know, because they pay taxes as such.
@daringfireball @lapcatsoftware From my reading of the DSA, specifically par (24), it seems that Apple wants to avoid liability of being a platform by making it very clear that each app purchase is a contract with the developer directly, thus forcing devs to become real legal businesses.
That's unlike AppStore™ where customers buy from Apple's subsidiary in Luxembourg or Ireland, and devs have a contract with Apple, not users, therefore only Apple needs to know their business identity.
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