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davidw said:

As a developer, shouldn't you know this?

Did you bother to read my post before you replied? Yes I know how the App Store works, apparently it is you that has problems with it.

davidw said:

And there are reasons why a developer might not want to have their apps available in all EU countries. Language being one of them. If a developer develop an app in German for Germany, are they forced to also make it available in the other 26 EU countries in French, Spanish, English, Italian, Greek, Polish and so on?  As an EU citizen freely traveling about the countries in the EU, are you forced to learn all the languages in the various countries you visit? Developer might need to know the languages for all the countries they develop their apps for. Even if they are not in the EU. 

(DE) Viele in Europa kennen mehrere Sprachen. (IE) Má tá cuairt á tabhairt agat ar thír is dócha go mbeidh tú in ann a dteanga a labhairt freisin. (ES) Incluso si no lo logra, puede que todavía necesite tomar el autobús o el tranvía. (FR) Vous ne voulez pas changer votre comté de résidence avec votre compte Apple juste pour de courtes vacances. (EN) So even if available in one language your app should still be available to everyone, it's just logical. (UK) Слава Україні! 

Much as I disagree with their App Store nonsense in recent years (and I'm a developer) what I can say about this article is that the person who has written it has no understanding about what the EU is or what the EU is referring to on this matter. As a number of people on here have already pointed out. It has always confused me as to why people in this SINGLE MARKET are being segregated into 27 different App Stores / iTunes stores when we are free to travel, live, work, and shop anywhere in the EU. It's just a pain and it discourages me from making purchases of music, movies, TV shows, and non-essential Apps in fear I do move soon to another state as it is a plan I have. 

EDIT: I should also add they are by no means the only company guilty of this.

“ Clip is a clipboard manager for iOS that can run in the background indefinitely, listening for changes to the clipboard ”

You totally forgot to mention with AltStore you also get an app that runs in the background and monitors your clipboard, every time you copy something to paste it will give you new functionality… with all that data it got hold of. I’m sure they won’t do anything bad with all that data they are constantly looking at, after all, who ever copies important data like addresses, bank details, passwords, phone numbers etc..? We just copy and paste gibberish for fun right!?

Wow, amazing! That flag emojis did not show up at all there it's just shown some random characters.