I’m never ever downloading a single app that’s not through Apple and anyone who does should know they’re a victim.
Having your data farmed at much higher levels is not a win lol.
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App Store to Be 'Split in Two' Ahead of EU iPhone Sideloading Deadline
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Having your data farmed at much higher levels is not a win lol.
Then don't... no one is forcing you to; I've never been forced to download any app, from anyone, ever.
No big deal.
IT's not that simple. ...if the commission goes away the market will force the price down and the starving artists will get the same amount of money they were getting. After all the term "starving artists" wasn't coined after the iPhone gained market dominance.
Dumbest take ever.
You ever used a Mac?
Argument invalid.
Edit to lol heartily at negative reactions. This is no different than being able to run whatever I want on a Mac. Not one bit. And there's zero argument to the contrary that holds any water.
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I hope Apple implements a different color bubble for iMessage users who have side-loaded apps.
It's about security people!!!!!!!
I want to know that the phone I'm communicating with could be compromised.
It's about security people!!!!!!!
I want to know that the phone I'm communicating with could be compromised.
The thing I described is real and exists. I kind of see it the other way around.
It’s more like there’s only one store that sells beer. It’s not a law but it is de facto this way. The government wants to allow beer distribution from more than that one store.
It’s almost entirely not the store’s beer, the beer was all made by independent craft brewers and a few giant brewing companies. The store argues that only they should be allowed to sell beer because only they can guarantee the safety and quality of the beer.
But they’ve been doing a bad job lately, have a lot of arbitrary rules that favor the store over the brewers, and a few rat heads have wound up in bottles. The beer makers increasingly want alternatives for how to distribute their beer.
The store doesn’t actually seem to care, as long as the brewers still pay them for distribution, whether the store is actually distributing it or not, because the store believes that without them the brewers would have no drinkers to sell their beer to.
It’s not actually about the safest and best way to sell the beer, it’s about the money.
It’s not a perfect analogy but I think it’s pretty close.
Google literally just lost to Epic over this very thing i.e. Google has been using its monopoly power to prevent this from happening…
Side-loading changes absolutely nothing about the sandbox model. Side-loaded apps will be sandboxed like App Store apps are.
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I agree wholeheartedly the EU telling phone manufacturers what to do is asinine.
That said, let it all burn. Let them sideload, let the malware proliferate.... let it burn. Sometimes you just have to let it all come crashing down until people realize what they've done.
And in the end, nobody has to sideload. Even if this jackassery goes global, you don't have to sideload or install unsafe apps. It's not like someone else destroying their Mac or PC affects you directly. Same is true for phones — if people want to do whatever they want and suffer the consequences ... I'm all for it. Beavers gonna beave.
But this is asinine to be sure.
That said, let it all burn. Let them sideload, let the malware proliferate.... let it burn. Sometimes you just have to let it all come crashing down until people realize what they've done.
And in the end, nobody has to sideload. Even if this jackassery goes global, you don't have to sideload or install unsafe apps. It's not like someone else destroying their Mac or PC affects you directly. Same is true for phones — if people want to do whatever they want and suffer the consequences ... I'm all for it. Beavers gonna beave.
But this is asinine to be sure.
Who said I think that? But there’s still some safeguards. There’s compulsory do not track and other helpful things that stem some of the tide.
The alternative is a flood and I’ve no idea why anyone thinks that’s a better world.
I’m not a programmer, but I do know Apple makes extensive use of entitlements and private APIs. There are some things that the operating system just plain refuses to do for anyone but Apple. I don’t think distribution is going to change that.
How would the EU benefit from a capitalistic standpoint? EU produces no apps. The companies that would create new app stores (and apps) would be American companies such as Steam, Meta, Epic and others. All American companies.
Wonder if something like making side loading available for just the SE or regular non-Pro models would be a potential workaround?
That way if people want side loading they can get it in the less popular models.
That way if people want side loading they can get it in the less popular models.
I’m pretty tech savvy. Side loading isn’t a problem for me. I’d probably never use it. I can’t wait to hear the complaints start rolling in that ‘my iPhone has a virus’, ‘my iPhone just bricked because of a malicious app’, ‘my iPhone has been hacked and all my credit card info has been comprised’, etc, etc, etc. I’ll just laugh and go along my way.
My iPhone is the most important piece of tech that I have. It helps with my job, my communication, my getting around in unkown places, paying for items when I’m out and about, etc. I’m not taking chances of being somewhere and this device breaks in my most time of need. If my computer is compromised or has a virus, ehh, I still have a computer in my pocket and I’ll survive. The difference is my home computer isn’t in my pocket and needed by me multiple times a day.
Give people side loading and warn them, and then ignore all the complaints and don’t support them when they break their phone. I’m just an old fart and this is just my opinion. It won’t affect me in any way, but boy am I glad I don’t work for Apple technical support any longer. What a nightmare.
I’ve been a computer nerd since the 80’s and I just don’t care about reliving any of those nightmares because of malicous entities and I’ve have had to fix hundreds of computers because of malicious software over the years. <end of rant> LOL
My iPhone is the most important piece of tech that I have. It helps with my job, my communication, my getting around in unkown places, paying for items when I’m out and about, etc. I’m not taking chances of being somewhere and this device breaks in my most time of need. If my computer is compromised or has a virus, ehh, I still have a computer in my pocket and I’ll survive. The difference is my home computer isn’t in my pocket and needed by me multiple times a day.
Give people side loading and warn them, and then ignore all the complaints and don’t support them when they break their phone. I’m just an old fart and this is just my opinion. It won’t affect me in any way, but boy am I glad I don’t work for Apple technical support any longer. What a nightmare.
I’ve been a computer nerd since the 80’s and I just don’t care about reliving any of those nightmares because of malicous entities and I’ve have had to fix hundreds of computers because of malicious software over the years. <end of rant> LOL
Oh I totally agree, the actual App Store interface is a complete mess.
The last time it was totally rewritten was 2017, and it’s only gotten worse since.
Wait..you genuinely believe the EU isn’t influenced by America or American interests/corporations??:/
I don't know what flood you are afraid of? If you don't sideload apps, you won't have any problems?
The rules that are being applied are giving you the same benefits (and sure, potential threats) that your Mac does.
There is a chance the apps currently in the App Store will not be in the new EU App Store, and developers will have to resubmit them.
You will not need to “endure” anything. It will be optional, just as it has been on Macs forever. And knowing Apple, I am confident they will make you think twice before installing anything from outside of their App Store.
No..the Mac and iPhone are not the same thing haha. iPhone is sandboxed..the Mac is not.
You people crying about having another App Store and being confused are the same people crying about it being too confusing of a product line. Apparently a number bigger than 1 is confusing to you.
That would not comply with the EU regulation that is forcing Apple to allow side-loading in the first place.