iPhone app sideloading: Apple reportedly plans to charge fees and review apps downloaded outside of the App Store - 9to5Mac
iPhone app sideloading: Apple reportedly plans to charge fees and review apps downloaded outside of the App Store - 9to5Mac
Apple will soon announce policy changes to conform to the Digital Markets Act in Europe, with an impending implementation deadline...
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I should be able to run any software I see fit on a piece of hardware I own without a corporation acting as a gatekeeper. I hope the EU finds this unacceptable because it’s frankly bullshit.
Android has entered the chat.
But yeah, the closed iOS experience is why i stay away from Apple.
To be most specific, LineageOS (open source Android) on a Google Pixel phone. Google's Pixel hardware is open.
You can side load apps on pretty much every version of Android.
Yes but if you want the truly free "this is my hardware, keep your corpo hands off of it" experience, then Pixel phones with FOSS OS is the way to go.
even the modem? I was under the impression that cellular modems where the thing keeping a truly free phone being made.
Pretty sure grapheneos has binary blobs for all the firmware, SOC/modem, camera, Bluetooth etc. nothing they can do since the manufacturers only release binary blobs and by the time it could be reversed engineered it would be obsolete
If this is a priority, buy different hardware.
You never purchased an iOS or iPadOS device with Apple promising unlimited side loading.
And speaking of which, unless you’re a member of the EU, no sideload for you.
I know all this, still want Apple to get dragged kicking and screaming to a place that’s not so damned anticompetitive.
I feel that you’re just trying to stick it to Apple and thus have discredited any comments you might make on the topic.
As a power user, I find Apple’s approach to sideloading insulting as a customer and blatantly anticompetitive.
I buy an Apple phone because the phone market is effectively a duopoly: Android or iOS. I choose iOS over Android because of its much longer security support window and better accessory ecosystem (AirPods Pro + Apple Watch in particular), and also because I don’t want absolutely everything in my life to be owned by Google.
None of that detracts from the fact that Apple’s position on this issue hurts its customers and is fucking annoying. And their claims of “it’s for security” are disingenuous at best.
Oh well. You gotta decide which is more important to you. Seems that you won’t get both.
Sure, but I should be able to have both. We used to have both, and it was taken from us by monopolistic megacorps.
So, I accept that the situation is what it is, but I’m allowed to be pissed off about it. I’m also allowed to support regulations that would force Apple to give their users options.
You’ll be asking for an honest politician next. Wishful thinking.
lol. you think you own your technology. how cute.
TIL you can be a snob by acknowledging that EULAs exist.