They want to side load unsigned code that didn’t go through any Apple validation without going through the App store at all.
Yes I do. And it’s insane that you’re trying to make this out as a bad thing. So many open-source developers that don’t want to make an iOS app because the only realistic way to distribute it is by paying Apple $100 per year. And when I mess around with app dev again I don’t want to have to resign it every week just to be able to continue using it.
Kids already can do that for free. An non-profit open source devs can already get their fee waived so none of your arguments hold up in the current world we live in.
And you are wrong on the other side. I switched from Android to iOS when Amazon decided to launch their app store. I don’t want that horrible cludgey experience and neither do actual iOS users.
The reason this didn’t take off is because nobody pays for android apps. You would have to be naive as hell to believe that there won’t be many app stores and many malicious apps as a result of this change which will affect the actual users.
Having to pay a fee and then hope to have it waved is very different from what I’m saying. What about that hypothetical kid I mentioned, if his parents don’t care about paying that fee? Or if he doesn’t run macos?
And yes there would be malicious apps, that no one would ever install unless they wanted to.
Both of those have, again, absolutely zero impact on virtually the entire ecosystem and its users. The expections being the people actively looking to leave the garden.
So, I’ll ask again, do you have any actual argument to defend apple’s policies?
I probably shouldn’t engage you because everything you’re saying is complete and utter ignorant nonsense but I’ll try…
There’s a free developer account option and has been for a very very long time. It has limits but the kid already has the option you are asking for as does literally everybody. If you want to learn how to make and to be able to sideload an app as a dev to your device, that is free now.
Non profits get the fee waived. They don’t have to pay it up front either. They have to apply. But again, if you can’t get your users to pay $100 you should rethink if you should destroy the ecosystem for everyone else for something nobody wants.
Your malicious apps comment also makes it clear that you do not know any people older than 12.
My parents will likely be affected by this and they are relatively with it with respect to technology compared to most.
People will install malicious apps accidentally or unknowingly and Epic Games’ store or the Tik Tok ten cent app store will likely be rife with those apps that people will assume are safe because they were promised a safe ecosystem that you are trying to ruin to get things that already exist!
The privacy and safety of the App store is unparalleled and it is literally the thing we pay extra for our phones to have.
This is the thing I can’t stand about all the “Apple bad” people here. You just wanna turn the device by default into Linux and don’t understand the implications that has for so many other non tech savvy users. When you’re on the side of Microsoft and Meta you probably aren’t right…Apple’s not great but they are a far cry from those two.
The people who want a world where iPhones are like Linux by default don’t use iPhones; they use Linux phones.
The vast majority of us just want to have the ability to use our devices to run what we want when we want to. The App Store is a good, fine thing. I like that it exists and I don’t want it to go away.
But I don’t think it’s fair that Apple gets to tell me I can’t run emulators on my phone. It’d be like Ford telling me I can’t drive my car on an interstate or something. The whole concept is weird.
Let me own my device, please. I paid for this hardware; why am I not allowed to choose the software that runs on it?
Android handles this in what I think is a great way. By default, you can’t install 3rd party apps. You have to dig into your settings to enable that and then your phone is unlocked. I do think that’s bad for alternative app stores (but that’s a whole ‘nother problem) but the vast majority of people who seek apps that aren’t available in the phone’s App Store do so because they’re more technically minded and so don’t mind a more technical solution. If you go take a random Android user off the street, 9 times out of 10, they won’t even know you can install apps from outside of the App Store and that’s a good thing.
Apple loves to tout “security” and “efficiency” for why they don’t allow 3rd party apps and that’s so silly to me. If I want a less secure and less efficient phone so that I can use features Apple doesn’t like, that should be purely my decision to make. It doesn’t affect anyone else but me.
I literally buy iPhone mostly because of the walled garden. It’s by far the biggest value add they have, and they grew to the scale they are in large part because of the value that adds.
If you want to sell an app on iPhone, you have to follow their human interface guidelines. You have to respect users’ privacy (not enough, but as much as they can enforce). You used to be required to take payment through Apple’s payment methods that make it incredibly easy to track and cancel subscriptions. Courts taking the payment rules away makes my experience worse. A shitty law forcing Apple to allow apps to pull out of the App Store and do whatever they want would make my experience much worse. (Thank God I’m not in the EU or subject to that.) If I was in the EU, the government be stealing a large portion of the value of the phone I paid for from me, to be replaced by stuff I can already do if I really want to.
These laws aren’t giving power to the people. They’re taking away Apple’s power to protect people and giving the power to fucking China through epic.
Do you honestly think that anything will change if iOS is opened to sideloading, for someone who never wants to leave the walled garden?
Because the answer is no. On Android any App that wants to have any shot at gaining mainstream success (aka 99% of Apps) HAVE to be on the Playstore because 95% of users get spooked if they have to download an APK, toggle some settings in settings App that warn you about this being a bad idea.
The only thing that changes is that the 1% of users who know what the fuck they are doing, can do so on a device they payed good money for.
Facebook/ten cent/etc have literally zero reason to stay off the play store. Google encourages them to be malware, and doesnt curtail their bad behavior is any way.
Apple doesn’t. They might not leave while they think they can also destroy the security of iOS in the US, but it is a complete and utter certainty that the literal day any similar law takes effect in the US that Facebook and all their apps leave the App Store completely. They absolutely can trivially walk people through the steps from their website and the apps that are already installed, and they already have the monopoly to force their users to deal with it.
Apple isn’t Reddit, building a market by claiming to be open then locking it down. They built their market because the walled garden is a massively better product.
They don’t leave the play store because, and exclusively because, Google allows them to do anything they want. Apple does not. The literally exact day a similar law goes into effect in the US, it’s an absolute guarantee Facebook leaves the App Store with every single app they have. There’s not even the slight possibility they stay there.
Lol you think they would just leave and pray everyone follows them? I reckon it would be hilarious to see who wins between iPhones and Instagram when influencers are shown a huge warning about untrusted apps.
No, the truth is that there would be two versions of the app with two different prices, to attract people to the alternative store. Which would probably be Facebook’s own closed garden, so again, a low risk for the end user (who would have also to opt into that “risk”).
I’m actually wondering, what does Facebook care about that. After all their revenue comes from ads, not in app purchases. Or am I missing something?
There isn’t guesswork involved. They know for certain that people will. They have network effect on their side. Their entire audience is captive. Anyone willing to leave already has after the hundreds of different “revelations” of how fucking disgusting everything they have ever touched is.
They aren’t selling anything but your privacy. It’s Apple’s limitations on being overt malware that they’d be bypassing, and it is absolutely guaranteed that they would do so the literal minute they can.
These Randoms on the internet desperately want Epic Games to make more money off of Fortnight at the expense of actual Apple product users that they know in real life; their literal friends and family will be made to have a worse product they don’t want, just because it sticks it to Apple.
You know there are other options between “instantly installing by clicking a link” and not being able to install anything.
Such as the option that is trying to be killed in this post.
But let’s be real, Epic does not want those other options and neither do the Android-using Apple-bad commenters on here and reddit.
They want to side load unsigned code that didn’t go through any Apple validation without going through the App store at all.
Yes I do. And it’s insane that you’re trying to make this out as a bad thing. So many open-source developers that don’t want to make an iOS app because the only realistic way to distribute it is by paying Apple $100 per year. And when I mess around with app dev again I don’t want to have to resign it every week just to be able to continue using it.
It’s insane that you don’t see how this will affect the actual majority of Apple users and not the extremely minimal use-case of open source devs.
And seriously, if your open source app isn’t worth $100 to you or it’s users, maybe it’s not worth destroying the IOS ecosystem that people rely on?
Normal users are unaffected. Completely. A hundred percent.
People on Android don’t know they have this option at all (how many people are not using the play store?).
But sure, your ecosystem is going to be destroyed because a kid wants to try developing angry birds on his phone.
Kids already can do that for free. An non-profit open source devs can already get their fee waived so none of your arguments hold up in the current world we live in.
And you are wrong on the other side. I switched from Android to iOS when Amazon decided to launch their app store. I don’t want that horrible cludgey experience and neither do actual iOS users.
The reason this didn’t take off is because nobody pays for android apps. You would have to be naive as hell to believe that there won’t be many app stores and many malicious apps as a result of this change which will affect the actual users.
Having to pay a fee and then hope to have it waved is very different from what I’m saying. What about that hypothetical kid I mentioned, if his parents don’t care about paying that fee? Or if he doesn’t run macos?
And yes there would be malicious apps, that no one would ever install unless they wanted to.
Both of those have, again, absolutely zero impact on virtually the entire ecosystem and its users. The expections being the people actively looking to leave the garden.
So, I’ll ask again, do you have any actual argument to defend apple’s policies?
I probably shouldn’t engage you because everything you’re saying is complete and utter ignorant nonsense but I’ll try…
There’s a free developer account option and has been for a very very long time. It has limits but the kid already has the option you are asking for as does literally everybody. If you want to learn how to make and to be able to sideload an app as a dev to your device, that is free now.
Non profits get the fee waived. They don’t have to pay it up front either. They have to apply. But again, if you can’t get your users to pay $100 you should rethink if you should destroy the ecosystem for everyone else for something nobody wants.
Your malicious apps comment also makes it clear that you do not know any people older than 12.
My parents will likely be affected by this and they are relatively with it with respect to technology compared to most.
People will install malicious apps accidentally or unknowingly and Epic Games’ store or the Tik Tok ten cent app store will likely be rife with those apps that people will assume are safe because they were promised a safe ecosystem that you are trying to ruin to get things that already exist!
The privacy and safety of the App store is unparalleled and it is literally the thing we pay extra for our phones to have.
You want to destroy that for unfounded reasons.
This is the thing I can’t stand about all the “Apple bad” people here. You just wanna turn the device by default into Linux and don’t understand the implications that has for so many other non tech savvy users. When you’re on the side of Microsoft and Meta you probably aren’t right…Apple’s not great but they are a far cry from those two.
The people who want a world where iPhones are like Linux by default don’t use iPhones; they use Linux phones.
The vast majority of us just want to have the ability to use our devices to run what we want when we want to. The App Store is a good, fine thing. I like that it exists and I don’t want it to go away.
But I don’t think it’s fair that Apple gets to tell me I can’t run emulators on my phone. It’d be like Ford telling me I can’t drive my car on an interstate or something. The whole concept is weird.
Let me own my device, please. I paid for this hardware; why am I not allowed to choose the software that runs on it?
Android handles this in what I think is a great way. By default, you can’t install 3rd party apps. You have to dig into your settings to enable that and then your phone is unlocked. I do think that’s bad for alternative app stores (but that’s a whole ‘nother problem) but the vast majority of people who seek apps that aren’t available in the phone’s App Store do so because they’re more technically minded and so don’t mind a more technical solution. If you go take a random Android user off the street, 9 times out of 10, they won’t even know you can install apps from outside of the App Store and that’s a good thing.
Apple loves to tout “security” and “efficiency” for why they don’t allow 3rd party apps and that’s so silly to me. If I want a less secure and less efficient phone so that I can use features Apple doesn’t like, that should be purely my decision to make. It doesn’t affect anyone else but me.
I literally buy iPhone mostly because of the walled garden. It’s by far the biggest value add they have, and they grew to the scale they are in large part because of the value that adds.
If you want to sell an app on iPhone, you have to follow their human interface guidelines. You have to respect users’ privacy (not enough, but as much as they can enforce). You used to be required to take payment through Apple’s payment methods that make it incredibly easy to track and cancel subscriptions. Courts taking the payment rules away makes my experience worse. A shitty law forcing Apple to allow apps to pull out of the App Store and do whatever they want would make my experience much worse. (Thank God I’m not in the EU or subject to that.) If I was in the EU, the government be stealing a large portion of the value of the phone I paid for from me, to be replaced by stuff I can already do if I really want to.
These laws aren’t giving power to the people. They’re taking away Apple’s power to protect people and giving the power to fucking China through epic.
Do you honestly think that anything will change if iOS is opened to sideloading, for someone who never wants to leave the walled garden?
Because the answer is no. On Android any App that wants to have any shot at gaining mainstream success (aka 99% of Apps) HAVE to be on the Playstore because 95% of users get spooked if they have to download an APK, toggle some settings in settings App that warn you about this being a bad idea.
The only thing that changes is that the 1% of users who know what the fuck they are doing, can do so on a device they payed good money for.
Facebook/ten cent/etc have literally zero reason to stay off the play store. Google encourages them to be malware, and doesnt curtail their bad behavior is any way.
Apple doesn’t. They might not leave while they think they can also destroy the security of iOS in the US, but it is a complete and utter certainty that the literal day any similar law takes effect in the US that Facebook and all their apps leave the App Store completely. They absolutely can trivially walk people through the steps from their website and the apps that are already installed, and they already have the monopoly to force their users to deal with it.
Apple isn’t Reddit, building a market by claiming to be open then locking it down. They built their market because the walled garden is a massively better product.
None of this would change. Congrats, you talk about a topic you don’t understand
Yes, it would.
They don’t leave the play store because, and exclusively because, Google allows them to do anything they want. Apple does not. The literally exact day a similar law goes into effect in the US, it’s an absolute guarantee Facebook leaves the App Store with every single app they have. There’s not even the slight possibility they stay there.
Lol you think they would just leave and pray everyone follows them? I reckon it would be hilarious to see who wins between iPhones and Instagram when influencers are shown a huge warning about untrusted apps.
No, the truth is that there would be two versions of the app with two different prices, to attract people to the alternative store. Which would probably be Facebook’s own closed garden, so again, a low risk for the end user (who would have also to opt into that “risk”).
I’m actually wondering, what does Facebook care about that. After all their revenue comes from ads, not in app purchases. Or am I missing something?
There isn’t guesswork involved. They know for certain that people will. They have network effect on their side. Their entire audience is captive. Anyone willing to leave already has after the hundreds of different “revelations” of how fucking disgusting everything they have ever touched is.
They aren’t selling anything but your privacy. It’s Apple’s limitations on being overt malware that they’d be bypassing, and it is absolutely guaranteed that they would do so the literal minute they can.
It’s an echo chamber just like any other.
These Randoms on the internet desperately want Epic Games to make more money off of Fortnight at the expense of actual Apple product users that they know in real life; their literal friends and family will be made to have a worse product they don’t want, just because it sticks it to Apple.
Bruh, nobody is taking away your precious App Store. If you don’t want to sideload there is simple fix : Just don’t do it.
And yall could just stick with your androids and or just jailbreak an iPhone. Why does this require legislation?
That’s not how parents work.