iPhone app sideloading: Apple reportedly plans to charge fees and review apps downloaded outside of the App Store - 9to5Mac
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Apple will soon announce policy changes to conform to the Digital Markets Act in Europe, with an impending implementation deadline...

Who would’ve thought? This isn’t going to fly with the EU.

Article 5.3 of the Digital Markets Act (DMA): “The gatekeeper shall not prevent business users from offering the same products or services to end users through third-party online intermediation services or through their own direct online sales channel at prices or conditions that are different from those offered through the online intermediation services of the gatekeeper.”

Friendly reminder that you can sideload apps without jailbreaking or paying for a dev account using TrollStore, which utilises core trust bugs to bypass/spoof some app validation keys, on a iPhone XR or newer on iOS 14.0 up to 16.6.1. (ANY version for iPhone X and older)

Install guide: Trollstore

  • maynarkh@feddit.nlEnglish
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    8 months ago

    Top comment by Chris (@SwiftySanders@urbanists.social) Liked by 7 people

    I think all these changes that the EU is doing really only benefit large development firms like Spotify and Epic at the expense of the smaller developers. EU is adding additional regulations and requirements from Apple which smaller developers and indie developers will now have to comply with which will act as barriers to entry for some. That’s bad for competition…which I think was ultimately the goal for Epic and Spotify.

    I love this braindead take regurgitated again and again and again. The DMA specifically does not apply to anyone smaller than a big monopolistic company. Apple barely made the cut themselves. The whole regulation is about forcing six companies - the Act only applies to them at all - to open up their walled gardens because they are strangling their respective markets and killing innovation, consumer choice and competition.

    • dan1101@lemm.eeEnglish
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      8 months ago

      That is hilarious that they expect iOS users to pay a fee to sideload apps. Like comically evil.

      • OpenStars@startrek.websiteEnglish
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        8 months ago

        I don’t pay anything to side load apps on my phone.

        Probably bc I switched to Android.:-)

        And I am never ever going back!

        • Welt@lazysoci.alEnglish
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          8 months ago

          You sound like one of those people who said they’d move to Canada when Trump got elected the first time, and didn’t.