This is going to be a hell that I’m not looking forward to. Every company and their mother is about to make their own App Store, just like every video game company has their own “launcher” to try to compete with Steam. Ugh.

Why sideload? It’s safer with apple gate keeping all the nasty shit and malpractices.

This is exciting news, I can't wait to be able to sideloads the apps I want without using the Apple one. Having this on my Pixel (for YEARS AND YEARS) has been amazing.

It's my phone, I bought it with my own money.

I just wanna install ppsspp

What we will get is multiple app stores under the App Store app. Sideloading runs a very risk of injecting malware unless Apple is willing to introduce the iOS equivalent of Windows Defender we’ve seen since Windows 8.0, in my opinion.

Should side-loading be allowed? From a consumer point of view, absolutely.

Will it also be a nightmare for Apple? Also yes. Just wait till boomers and dumb teenagers load malware onto her iPhone and some poor schmuck at the Apple Store has to deal with it. Keeping the iPhone locked to the App Store is far simpler for Apple and makes the phones more reliable. It's also hella profitable.

For those of us who know what we're doing, it would be awesome to have access to apps that Apple might not otherwise not allow. It'll also give developers more freedom.

But you gotta remember that the general population is dumb and does dumb shit.

Really hope we get ipa files for old games that got removed off the App store. legend: blood and glory, lanesplitter, cod zombies, cod black ops zombies

I’m just hoping for Emulators. Can’t imagine what the 15 Pro can do with emulators, it’s gonna be a beast with a backbone.

Ngl I wouldn't care if I could just download a damn gameboy emulator from the App Store.

if or when side loading comes to iPhone I bet we will see a new Cydia store

Tbh, I know that some malicious apps will rise, some bots, trojans, etc. But let karma do the job and for those that think that side-loading is a good idea, well, cross your fingers and hope that your phone doesn't get infected. Because it's 0 apple responsibility now. So, emptied bank account? Identity theft? Trojans controlling your chats and blackmailing you? iPhone borked by another fucked up virus?

Sorry mate, not apple business now. You're by your own.

Yeah yeah… we know, you’ll louse profit…

Everyone: we want choice!

Apple: that's the great misunderstanding. If you can't choose us, you have no choice.

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