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Question to everyone: Are there any particular apps/programs, you would want to sideload?
There are some third party apps on Android that allow you to upload custom firmware to devices like electric scooters in order to change default settings. Those simply don’t exist on iOS, I assume because they aren’t allowed. I would definitely like to try that.
Reddit app? App devs will be taken down if they let users use their own api token, but with sideloading devs can do just that and not worry about Reddit getting them taken down.
lmao that’s a Reddit restriction, absolutely nothing to do with the App Store
Devs would still (supposedly) be breaking the TOS, so they could get in legal trouble regardless.
Non-WebKit browser, a torrent client, an actual shell
I don’t know if it exists… but an app I can use to watch Netflix or YouTube on my CarPlay screen when the cars not driving.
Lol, the legitimate answer for the majority of people is going to pirating any apps and content they don't want to pay for.
Probably, but those people wouldn’t have paid in the first place. Also pirating iOS apps isn’t as trivial as some might think.
Virtualization so I can run Linux
Ooooh that's gonna be super useful for pentesting.
Also, if the required APIs are available for USB host mode shenanigans, I've always wanted an app that can emulate a USB stick given an ISO. I'd start the app, select the ISO, and connect to a PC and boot from the ISO. The app could also keep the ISOs of specific operating systems up to date, and also allow me to add custom ISOs and even regular writable filesystem images.
Not to mention BadUSB scripts.
If an iPhone could do that, that would be AMAZING!
Waiting for open source apps to pop up
This may open up a lot of inhouse development in places. Before, you had to have these limited developer licenses and bless devices to be able to install beta apps and a lot of places did this for internal only apps. That’s revenue to Apple just on the developer license and doing nothing else besides a webpage being maintained to hold all these profiles and stuff. And you were limited to the amount of devices you could use the beta software on.
But, now, at least in the UK, you could see that cumbersome step removed and that means it may be worthwhile. Suddenly using an iPad for an internal only tool on a large scale is a possibility.
Friend, sure ;)
Who would want a porn app that has more permissions to track everything you do?
This is this weirdest one for me
Apps have worse ability to track you than a browser, not better.
The only extra information they get about you is a consistent but unique (as in not possible to correlate) identifier, meaning they know its the same device accessing the app that it was the other day as well. But they often know this from IP on the web anyway, and since it can't be correlated, it doesn't tell them much.
There are already apps you can side load with services like signulous. I mainly use a modified YouTube app that supports background play, Adblock and Sponsorblock. Works very well
There are also 3rd party apps for other social media platforms.
Modded versions of spotify, youtube and twitch.
I would love some emulators.
winston reddit client
emulators
enmity discord client
Koreader.