Unwillingly agreed.

I dont really understand why people want it. Many of us got this out of our system in our youth on Androids. The shit apps you have to sideload are 99.9% of the time shit apps. And thats best case scenario.

Ngl I wouldn’t care if I could just download a damn gameboy emulator from the App Store.

What if I buy a subscription outside of the app store like on a windows laptop from apps website or something will they still charge me more if I the download the app on an iPhone and sign into my account?

Let the users do whatever they want with THEIR device!

Then don’t do it. Oh wait.

Everyone: we want choice!

Apple: that’s the great misunderstanding. If you can’t choose us, you have no choice.

Wut…

My issue with side loading is what the developers can bake into the app “features” that Apple and its security departments won’t know. Could be metrics and gps data, keylogger, maybe it lets you share malware or tracker software via an exploit with airdrop. Who knows what’s out there but I don’t trust any company to adhere to data privacy rules. It’s been done time and again and results in a lawsuit to delete said data.

Should side-loading be allowed? From a consumer point of view, absolutely.

Will it also be a nightmare for Apple? Also yes. Just wait till boomers and dumb teenagers load malware onto her iPhone and some poor schmuck at the Apple Store has to deal with it. Keeping the iPhone locked to the App Store is far simpler for Apple and makes the phones more reliable. It’s also hella profitable.

For those of us who know what we’re doing, it would be awesome to have access to apps that Apple might not otherwise not allow. It’ll also give developers more freedom.

But you gotta remember that the general population is dumb and does dumb shit.

Get ready for the Genius Bar to erase your devices and say “you wanted us to fix this 3rd party mess you created for yourself? Here, we fixed it”

I think whenever sideloading becomes a thing the most reasonable solution to me is to make it only doable by injection through a program on a Mac or pc.

It would still allow anyone that really wants to get a program to have it, and the program itself could still self update without having to plug back in, but it would add that one extra step that would keep your average person from accidentally downloading something they shouldn’t.

Like my grandma. If sideloading were on a phone and just had to click okay a couple extra times, she might accidentally do it. If she had to plug it in to download initially, she’d think is this something that I need?

Why not let others also run secure App Store, w/o sideloading? Or pull out of Europe altogether if they worry so much about security?

May be Apple wouldn’t have been forced to allow sideloading if they hadn’t resorted to monopolistic practices and extorted profits from developers.

Unrealistic, but would be funny if apple just go “fuck EU, I’m not selling them phones anymore” route

Yeah yeah… we know, you’ll louse profit…