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[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Question to everyone: Are there any particular apps/programs, you would want to sideload?

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago
  • Actual alternative browsers is the big one for me, I want real WebExtension-support
  • Cloud gaming
  • Programming language interpreters
  • I have a friend that says they want porn apps, so for my friend, that
  • Anything requiring NFC card emulation besides the few blessed use cases Apple graciously allow
  • Proper photo backups (apps that aren't Photos.app can't automatically backup, you have to manually launch them)
  • Emulators
  • Open source software, because the vast majority of projects don't have any actual income stream to pay for developer accounts
  • Anything that Apple deems is already "OS functionality", see the MDM app crackdown a while back
  • etc.
[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

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.

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