Nogami comments on iPhone app sideloading: Apple reportedly plans to charge fees and review apps downloaded outside of the App Store

[–] Nogami@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago (7 children)

Anyone who didn’t see this coming? It was pretty obvious they’ll never ever allow unlimited side loading.

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[–] amzd@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago (6 children)

Well the new system will be way worse than current sideloading (which just requires a reinstall once a year)

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[–] hedgehog@ttrpg.network 1 point 2 years ago (5 children)

Once a year if you have a paid developer account, which is $100/year. It’s otherwise every 7 days and capped at 3 simultaneous apps*. And in either case you need a Mac or Windows machine available as well. I suspect it’ll be an improvement for anyone without a paid developer account.

* - At least, according to https://sideloadly.io/ - I haven’t touched sideloading for a few years (with AltStore + AltServer).

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[–] amzd@kbin.social 0 points 2 years ago (4 children)

You’re assuming you won’t need a dev account for this new system? Or is that confirmed somewhere

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[–] hedgehog@ttrpg.network 1 point 2 years ago (3 children)

It’s an educated inference - I don’t believe that requiring a paid dev account to sideload would satisfy the EU, and I don’t think a system that requires a paid dev account would be meaningfully different from the current state of things.

But then again, I will be surprised if the EU allows Apple to charge a commission on fees related to apps distributed outside their store, and they’re doing that anyway, so who knows.

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