Apple opens up app distribution for Brazil:

Beginning with iOS 26.5, developers can distribute apps on alternative app marketplaces, operate alternative app marketplaces, process app payments for digital goods and services outside of Apple In-App Purchase in iOS, and more.

So we’ve got the EU, Japan, Brazil, and partially South Korea. Slow progress, but still progress.

@manton I wonder when the tipping point will be when they just make it worldwide.

@manton curious, can you tell us the experience of publishing in alternative app stores in EU and Japan? How is it?