It would make iPhone experience worse
It’s your choice if you want to make it worse. You’re not forced to sideload.
This thread compromises about 60% of the total worldwide population that would ever care about side loading
What if you fly in and out of the EU?
Finally looking forward to travelling the high seas in my big boat
I pray this doesn’t spread and come to the US, because this will 100% make my iPhone experience worse.
Google, Microsoft, and Facebook at minimum will want to have their own separate stores to avoid the Apple Tax. So that’s 3 new locations I’d have to manage installs and updates from. Nevermind the new risk factor for mom o dad not knowing if they’re installing the right app.
I will move to the EU just for this.
Androids have that too for some time
But Google owns android
Well well we’ll look which countries has freedom now.
Nation State sponsored hackers surely have their calendars marked.
A gentle reminder that “sideloading” is optional and probably won’t be easy to activate, so your mom is safe.
Scammers could already find a way in by using certificates or something like that.
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??
tbh old people don’t need sideloading to be scamed and have their money stolen
EU doesn’t even have sideloading yet and you are already creating fake scare-fantasies in your head, my god lol
Scammers could already find a way in by using certificates or something like that.
This is way harder and much more complicated than you’re implying. You basically need a targeted campaign against you and you’d have to be the only target for a period of time.
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.
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.
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.
Am I the only one that don’t like /care for this? If I want an open OS that I can load all kind of crap on. I would have gotten an android.
I have an iOS because I appreciate the security of the walled garden.
Please tell me the garden is still secure 😅
Hopefully, the US pushes Apple to do this.
epic games right now: https://youtu.be/v79XKftN1Wo?feature=shared
I fucking hate the EU. I’m sorry but they can’t get the economy and other things in order first. And now they want to dictate technology. Well thx eu now I gotta talk to my parents about every cable purchase because it could be usbc with 2.0 speeds meant for charging or a 40GB thunderbolt cable.
The EU isn’t bad. But I guarantee none of those idiots would be able to tell what cable does what.