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Yeah until the big apps decide they’re big enough to get users to switch off the App Store. Then grandma is trying to follow instructions from an email to install Facebook and disable the protections, and now she’s screwed it up and there’s malware.

Every trip home for the holidays in about getting all the crap to make her computer usable again. Now I’ll have to do that to her phone, too??

I just hope companies won't pull their apps from the store and force the sideloading of their horrible extra tracker filled version.

If that doesn't happen in practice this will be a win.

Side loading is the new USB-C, which was the new Stage Manager. There always has to be some huge unconscionable outrage.

People generally don’t care. In fact, if people were asked with full knowledge of what that entails, they might even be against it.

Imagine what happens when a big company like Facebook decides they’re going to create the Meta App Store, and they think they’re a big enough entity to get enough users to switch. Ultimately users will need to choose between the security they’re guaranteed today, or being able to continue to use their favorite apps.

It’s definitely a niche thing but I’d love to have emulators on my phone.

And there have been a few other instances where I’d like to do something not allowed by the App Store. My electric scooter has lots of unofficial Android apps that let you change default settings by uploading custom firmware. But those apps are not allowed on iOS. So I would have to borrow an Android device to do it.

Yes it’s niche but it’s pretty annoying for those use-cases that are simply banned by Apple.

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