That law is going to have to be amended, for many different reasons. Is the new version of the Commodore 64 covered by it? They are shipping devices with an OS that is sold in the state of California. How about people who buy FujiNet adapters so that they can play online games? Are those apps, websites, or both?
MS-DOS and CP/M are clearly not a problem because they predate the law and are not actively developed. But FreeDOS is still active. However, I seriously doubt the FreeDOS distribution mechanism qualifies as an "app store." Some of the key parts of an app store are needing an account to access it, possibly the ability to make transactions, and information tracking to know what has been downloaded. FreeDOS does none of this - the package managers are either doing local file copies from CD or are downloading things from a web site in a non-tracked and non-exclusive way. I'm quite sure this isn't going to be applicable to FreeDOS, Commodore 64s, calculator firmware, etc. It would be quite amazing if the Attorney General of California decided to sue to force an age tracking and verification mechanism into these classes of software and devices.
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