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This is going to be bad for customers. Imagine how much shortcuts companies are going to take now. They will have no safe guards for greedy companies.
I know epic only wants to do things that piss Apple off now.
So I wonder if they’ll bring Fortnite back through side loading only because they know being able to show off their app not giving Apple a single dime will piss be a thorn in Apple’s side.
What if you fly in and out of the EU?
Any chance we get a proper version of Firefox with actual extensions
It’s hilarious how everyone is cheering for sideloading, just wait till Facebook begins to ask mandatory sideloading for info collection, and mass security breach. But yeah, you can get emulators and porns now, hooray, fuck privacy right?
Let the malwares and scams begin!
Am I the only one that don’t like /care for this? If I want an open OS that I can load all kind of crap on. I would have gotten an android.
I have an iOS because I appreciate the security of the walled garden.
Please tell me the garden is still secure 😅
Buy andr🦠id
European iPhone just got so much better.
So fun politics question. Will this work for UK users or do I have another reason to hate my family?
No, after Brexit you no longer share our sweet sweet laws. Just come back then you can enjoy once again.
Lol like anyone would want EU laws. Countries join the EU for money, not the regulations.
Absolutely false. You a boomer? I’ve literally only heard weird euro rednecks and boomers say that shit. All my homies love the EU. In fact, 2 or 3/10 want federalization and basically everyone I know wants a stronger EU.
I doubt most of the EU wants us back, and I can’t say I blame you. And if we were to see about coming back I very much doubt we’d get the same sweetheart deal that we originally had.
And remember how riled up some people got over the colour of our passports? Now imagine that over having to adopt the Euro.
Short answer: I don’t think it’s something we’ll even be able to talk seriously about for a good couple of decades. I just hope that we slowly re-join by stealth behind the scenes by doing things like re-joining bits and pieces so that the bigots and the exceptionalists don’t even notice.
Not true.
We’ve got to deal with a bunch of fashy toffs stealing all our money first.
But once they’re voted out we’ll be right there… Wait, the opposition said what? Oh…
Guess we’re not coming back any time soon.
Miss you homie.
Set store to EU country.
Oh boy.
Let me see the comments from the real rabid apple fanbois at ARS technica.
Those losers will downvote and cry like babies every time that someone says sideloading in ios.
lol
Im selling S23 U if this comes to iPhones. Also im gona get that Pirate Flag.
Question to everyone: Are there any particular apps/programs, you would want to sideload?
I would love some emulators.
Non-WebKit browser, a torrent client, an actual shell
- Actual alternative browsers is the big one for me, I want real WebExtension-support
- Cloud gaming
- Programming language interpreters
- I have a friend that says they want porn apps, so for my friend, that
- Anything requiring NFC card emulation besides the few blessed use cases Apple graciously allow
- Proper photo backups (apps that aren’t Photos.app can’t automatically backup, you have to manually launch them)
- Emulators
- Open source software, because the vast majority of projects don’t have any actual income stream to pay for developer accounts
- Anything that Apple deems is already “OS functionality”, see the MDM app crackdown a while back
- etc.
This may open up a lot of inhouse development in places. Before, you had to have these limited developer licenses and bless devices to be able to install beta apps and a lot of places did this for internal only apps. That’s revenue to Apple just on the developer license and doing nothing else besides a webpage being maintained to hold all these profiles and stuff. And you were limited to the amount of devices you could use the beta software on.
But, now, at least in the UK, you could see that cumbersome step removed and that means it may be worthwhile. Suddenly using an iPad for an internal only tool on a large scale is a possibility.
Friend, sure ;)
Who would want a porn app that has more permissions to track everything you do?
This is this weirdest one for me
Apps have worse ability to track you than a browser, not better.
- no possibility of using third party cookies
- no possibility to fingerprint you using what modifications your extensions do to the DOM
The only extra information they get about you is a consistent but unique (as in not possible to correlate) identifier, meaning they know its the same device accessing the app that it was the other day as well. But they often know this from IP on the web anyway, and since it can’t be correlated, it doesn’t tell them much.
I don’t know if it exists… but an app I can use to watch Netflix or YouTube on my CarPlay screen when the cars not driving.
Waiting for open source apps to pop up
winston reddit client
emulators
enmity discord client
Virtualization so I can run Linux
Ooooh that’s gonna be super useful for pentesting.
Also, if the required APIs are available for USB host mode shenanigans, I’ve always wanted an app that can emulate a USB stick given an ISO. I’d start the app, select the ISO, and connect to a PC and boot from the ISO. The app could also keep the ISOs of specific operating systems up to date, and also allow me to add custom ISOs and even regular writable filesystem images.
Not to mention BadUSB scripts.
If an iPhone could do that, that would be AMAZING!
Koreader.
Reddit app? App devs will be taken down if they let users use their own api token, but with sideloading devs can do just that and not worry about Reddit getting them taken down.
Devs would still (supposedly) be breaking the TOS, so they could get in legal trouble regardless.
lmao that’s a Reddit restriction, absolutely nothing to do with the App Store
There are already apps you can side load with services like signulous. I mainly use a modified YouTube app that supports background play, Adblock and Sponsorblock. Works very well
There are also 3rd party apps for other social media platforms.
There are some third party apps on Android that allow you to upload custom firmware to devices like electric scooters in order to change default settings. Those simply don’t exist on iOS, I assume because they aren’t allowed. I would definitely like to try that.
Modded versions of spotify, youtube and twitch.
Lol, the legitimate answer for the majority of people is going to pirating any apps and content they don’t want to pay for.
Probably, but those people wouldn’t have paid in the first place. Also pirating iOS apps isn’t as trivial as some might think.
I’ll stay on Android until this comes to North America.