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Strictly speaking the text is "A developer shall request a signal with respect to a particular user from an operating system provider or a covered application store when the application is downloaded and launched" and the video didn't address the "or a covered application store" part, whatever that means.
The bill does describe what a covered app store is. Here is a link in case anyone wants to read it.
https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB1043
“Covered application store” means a publicly available internet website, software application, online service, or platform that distributes and facilitates the download of applications from third-party developers to users of a computer, a mobile device, or any other general purpose computing that can access a covered application store or can download an application.
Meaning basically, from Apt, RPM, or Pacman.