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This is going to be bad for customers. Imagine how much shortcuts companies are going to take now. They will have no safe guards for greedy companies.

Of course it will only be for the EU. I'm sure users in other countries will find ways to get around this but I don't see them willingly to open things up where they are forced to. This isn't coming from the kindness of their hearts, keep in mind.

I'm sure Apple being Apple, is going to half bake it just enough to comply while making it a pain in the ass for users.

Nation State sponsored hackers surely have their calendars marked.

Well well we'll look which countries has freedom now.

For iPhone users that want side loading… why not get android?

Time to buy some META stock.

Apple is a big reason for their financial trouble. I could see them moving WhatsApp to their own hosted store to force users over and then sideload Facebook to get around tracking restrictions.

I sold it off when Apple started to clamp down. Looks like I can buy in this dip then just wait for that to climb back up.

Apples tracking restrictions are way more draconian than the EU ones.

This explains the last several months trajectory despite their future looking murky.

this would be huge in 2015. nobody cares about shops anymore, people just wanna install app and have it done. devs are out of their mind if they think they will gain on taking their app out of appstore and putting it on some alternative.

What does this mean? Not native English speaker and a lot of the hypothetical stuff just confused me lol.

Could this mean apps from earlier iOS versions like old games that aren’t available anymore? Emulators + ROMs?

I fucking hate this so much

will this do anything for emulation?

Could this bring Revanced to iPhone?

I was hoping Apple would decide to do the whole “a regulatory requirement is actually a great feature we came up with!” and allow it globally.

That being said, there are sideloading methods already. With the EU opening it up, hopefully there will be a much wider ranger of apps to side load.

The EU is a dictatorship at this point. Every dictator looks good the first few years. People are just overlooking it because they’re part of the problem. How can people not see how risky this is? Apple “should be forced” to do these things, right? What’s next on the agenda?

I wan't to know who is actually fighting for this feature? Not just asking for it, but has an actual catalog of apps that are so unique and can't be found on the App Store. While also having the actual app package file reading to load.

Only nerds want side loading. The majority of iPhone/Apple users don't know anything outside of the Facebook App. In fact, the majority of smartphone users in general don't know what side loading is or would even care to know.

Let the malwares and scams begin!

It’s hilarious how everyone is cheering for sideloading, just wait till Facebook begins to ask mandatory sideloading for info collection, and mass security breach. But yeah, you can get emulators and porns now, hooray, fuck privacy right?

Can‘t wait for my father to enable it, ruin his phone by downloading and installing dodgy shit and I am the one who has to fix it again.

How do I make my phone think I’m in the EU?