Do you want me to leave the Apple ecosystem?
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The lack of sideloading on iOS has been a consistent policy since the launch of the App Store in 2008. There’s been ample time for those opposed to it to move to another platform. I suspect that for the vast majority of users it isn’t a dealbreaker.
I don't currently have any sideloaded apps on my Android phone, but this is the reason I have it. I can reasonably say it's mine and not Apple's.
[The other reason is that I get better sound quality than without an external DAC. Apple's audio quality has been falling since the iPod before Touch.]
How do you explain the phenomenon, the very
existence of iPhone users who want sideloading?
You'd think that an article with that many words about how important sideloading is would have at least one "I wanted to do X but wasn't allowed" story.
There are 2 million or more developers many of them are highly competitive and extremely skilled. Apple won’t miss you if you decide to leave - there will be 3 other developers that will just take your place and make tons of money. Good luck with whatever you want to do next.
Obviously, Apple is not a saintly company but I feel the side loading issue is just useless noise and it drowns out many other legitimate Apple issues that don’t get enough coverage and are more important to improving user experiences.
EU legislators just agreed to implement regulation that will enforce the ability to sideload.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/other/apple-would-be-forced-...
I finally want an equivalent to f-droid for the iphone. Other people don't have to activate it on their phones.
We as a society don't have an obligation to design the world in a way that allows corporations to extract maximum value from us.
So is Russia and this is just politics and they have no public interest in mind - especially safety and reducing complexity. American companies are raking in obscene amounts of money everywhere and are leaving the local competition with no path to creating a business. When they cannot compete,they legislate.
A) Apple will comply
B) Apple will leave the EU market
Because Apple still pretends it's a tiny company, it has little obsessions that it pursues, it will ship a feature, and then leave it to rot with few to no improvements for years.
In order to convince Apple to improve user experiences across the OS, and not just whatever tickles its fancy in CURRENT_YEAR, it needs to actually compete. I lost count of all the apps that came out in the first half of iOS's life that opened Apple's eyes and moved them to include things in iOS, or open up permissions/entitlements for other apps.
Hmm, maybe. I'm not so sure that's always true, though. Individual withdrawals can turn into group retreats, which can build into an exodus.
The potential for developer wealth on the platform may be well-publicized, but the financial returns received by typical developers themselves may be less rewarding.