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Tim Cook Delivers Speech Emphasizing Apple's Opposition to Sideloading
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Funny to talk about profit when sharing a video with a click bait title about an issue already explained over and over again for the weeks since the studio was available (from a guy who has some decent reviews, but a lot of his Apple related videos are for clicks to get "Amens" from telling partial-truths to "Apple hater" fans).
You seem to be treating this as if the people who want sideloading want it just so they can pirate apps or “save a buck”. There are already services which allow mass piracy that Apple seemingly doesn’t care about.
You also seem to think that developers are really desperate to take back Apple’s 15% (or 30%) cut — desperate enough to ask their user bases to change the way they’ve been getting apps for over a decade. What major Android apps are distributed outside of the Play Store for this purpose?
It isn’t about Dev profits or getting free apps.
A warning system helps, but it’s not foolproof for oblivious or non-attentive users.
And a warning system does not address the other issue, which is that opening up the App Store ecosystem will decrease the availability of apps for users who want to stay only in the App Store. Some apps will migrate out of the App Store, and if it’s an app that a user depends on, they will be forced to follow.
All this is to say that if the App Store opens up, some users may benefit, but there are also users who will be hampered. The only entire group that will benefit is companies/developers.
The obvious question then is, what do the majority of users want?
But that question is actually irrelevant until another question is answered, which is, what law is Apple breaking? No company should be forced to do something if they aren’t breaking the law.
Click bait titles and silly thumbnails aside, I always found LTT to be one of the better general review sites out there, in terms of their review of Mac products.
If Apple wanted to, they could have made the Mac Studio with user upgradable NAND storage that could be swapped out without even opening the case. Something like the RAM on the iMac or the sim card in the iPhone. Just pop it out and swap.
You do have the right to use it how you see fit, and you are able. You can use it as it was intended by Apple or you can hack it. Apple isn’t obligated to make hacking it easier though.
Before you make claims like this perhaps it would be better to see just what "sideloading" on an iPhone really is. I seriously doubt it allows root level access.
What do consoles have to do with this? Nada. Some just use that as a flag to throw and attempt to place relevance.
My comment was on possible solutions for Apple. Other points of install instead of the "full Android" solution.
Except they are. They are refusing to follow international laws or rulings that tell them to open things up. That is picking and choosing legislation they want to follow, because they make enough money to pay the fine.
I saw throw some execs in jail and see what happens. Maybe they will start being pro-jailbreak.....
IF apple is forced to allow side loading, I hope Apple will also offer an option so I never see them, so there is no chance that I can download them accidentally or through fraudulent methods. I paid a lot of money for the extras security Apple’s walled garden Offers.
It is a lot more work for Apple to enhance the security of their OS with side loading enabled so of course Apple need to charge more for the option.
It is a lot more work for Apple to enhance the security of their OS with side loading enabled so of course Apple need to charge more for the option.
They are interconnected, if you destroy their security, you destroy their bottom line.
"can still work" and "must still work" are not the same thing, there would be no enforcement on side loaded apps, for any security aspects.
And Walmart has a monopoly on their shelves. But you don't have to shop at Walmart.
You mean you paid extra for the illusion of extra security. Its been quite well established by this point that Apple ignores security researchers who find zero day exploits. Just like they don't look that deep into apps they approve and people are duped into paying subscription fees to fake apps all the time.
Actually, Walmart doesn't force you to go back to Walmart if you buy a video game for a console later, or if you order a subscription to a magazine you bought there. If they did, Apple would be screaming bloody murder about them taking a share of every App Store purchase for phones you bought in their store.
So that is a terrible analogy, yet people like to use it.
I moved to Apple 20+ years agro because Dell went cheap and moved customer support to India, leaving me with malware that could not eb taken care of after two weeks of struggles with India, That motivated me to take a brief trip to CompUSA to chat with the Apple Rep and leave with a 15" PowerBook, plus software to run one critical PC app. There was a LOT of transferring data (especially accounting data) and it left me with no return to casual protection of my data. The same is for today, but my medical records and data are at the top of my list for protection and I don't want Apple to get casual on security,
You doubt? There is no doubt here. Sideloading allows installing of apps into the filesystem without the App Store. Just like Cydia and Installer did before the times of the App Store. The only difference is Cydia/Installer used a GUI much like the App Store does.
Hence, anything can be installed that can be programmed to gain root level access. How do you think Cydia and Installer were made to work? The whole point in the jailbreak was to gain access to _root in order to gain the necessary permissions for springboard to work with "unintended" apps.
It's buying a product from a company. You're referring to subscriptions(or other things) that come from the products you buy. Two separate issues. The analogy works as far as proving that Apple doesn't have a monopoly on apps, or product.
Sony doesn't have a Monopoly of games, even though you have to buy them through their store, even after you buy a game, and purchase is-game stuff, Sony still gets its share.
Speaking of that -- developer Jeff Johnson is running a wonderful thread in the last 24 hours of just a few of the latest outright scams that exist in the Apple App Store
Apple does nothing about things like this.
Sorry, but what?
I’ve been sideloading apps for over a year using AltServer. I never once for a second considered my device remotely close to being jailbroken. God, I wish, though.
Perhaps I’m missing something because you’ve demonstrated you know what you’re talking about technically, but I’m not seeing the parallel here.
There are a lot of moving parts here. I think “alternate app stores” is a goal for companies like Epic who want to make their own rules. I don’t support that. I literally just want to not worry “would Apple allow this app, or do I need to use a different platform to do this very basic thing?”