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Is the EU forcing Apple to allow sideloading and open up their ecosystem the right thing to do? (alien.top)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I feel it is the way to go, to an extent. The EU forcing Apple to adopt everything that android has would make everything too saturated. iPhone clones would rise to an all time high, and there wouldn't be many things to differentiate between iOS and android. Though I am quite interested in what others have to say.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I’m generally in favor of allowing sideloading. It shouldn’t be enabled out of the box, but it should be an option you can enable from somewhere buried in settings.

It wouldn’t create iPhone clones because sideloading doesn’t allow you to install iOS onto a non-Apple device. What’s more, sideloading is not the primary differentiator between iPhone and Android. iPhones still run circles around their Android counterparts in terms of performance, iOS still has a superior app ecosystem (fewer apps, sure, but there isn’t a sea of crapps), and it’s like Android devices seem to copy Apple’s style.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

If people want a phone that has everything Android has, they can buy an Android. No government should have this much control over what products a company brings to market.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I'm sorry but I can't see how it is possible that a government tells a company how to sell a product.

They had an environmental reason to force USB-C. In my eyes they have no ground on the sideload thing.

If I was apple europe would go to hell, they mostly use android anyway.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Pretty sure no clone will ever run the real ios they will just keep coming with a custom version of android that looks like ios.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The majority of people will never sideload anything anyway...aside from a cracked YouTube.. YouTube music and Spotify apps I don't sideload anything else onto my iPhone

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

My work phone is a 13Pro and i really hate how there is no easy way to block ads. Only way is expensive apps or premium subscriptions.

So im happy to live in the EU, hopefully there is a future with some new apps coming to iOs.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'd like sideloading, but ultimately I'm against a bunch of old government geezers telling Apple (or any other tech company) how to run their business.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Drop all rules against tech companies, we know they should rule the world. With that attidude we would still pay 20cent for each message we sent to some one.

Why do you think, those old white man do not sit in the apple company to only care how to make more money. Do you really think, Apple drives innovation with locking everyone out of their system and forcing people to stay in their world.