Does the DMA allow for a distinction between system applications and those that are sideloaded - or do they expect that any sideloaded app should have access to all entitlements, including those that are private today?
I've read summaries of the DMA but it's not obvious.
What's considered a system application? Messages and Siri that come with the system? Well they include those too.
They basically define it as "the same entitlements that a competing Apple app gets"
> the gatekeeper shall allow business users and alternative providers of services provided together with, or in support of, core platform services, free of charge, effective interoperability with, and access for the purposes of interoperability to, the same operating system, hardware or software features, regardless of whether those features are part of the operating system, as are available to, or used by, that gatekeeper when providing such services.
So features like the iMessage app being able to send SMS may be the biggest system entitlement? I don't think a settings app may be considered a service.
I've read summaries of the DMA but it's not obvious.