Apple begins blocking M1 Mac users from side loading iOS applications

And thus my M1 Macbook Air lost half it's value.

Apple overpromised and underdelivered. Loading and running iPad apps was one of the big sales pitches for going ARM. Reality: nothing of value you'd actually want to use is available in the Mac Appstore. So you HAVE to sideload apps from your iPad. 90% of iPad Apps I use on my Mac are sideloaded. They won't get any updates anymore thanks to this.

This is a bummer, the whole reason I bought my M1 Mac Mini was so I could side load apps like Discord and use native versions instead of running electron.

I think I’m past my return window but might see if I can return mine or not.

I already see people complaining over this that their machines would not be owned by them anymore and that enough is enough.

In some cases they are right in that we should demand openness of closed devices such as e.g. iPhones.

But in this case the app developers are to blame as they opted out.

I wish someone was to find a workaround for this, but I imagine that even if one was found, it wouldn't survive beyond one macOS update.