Brazilian court gives Apple 90 days to allow sideloading on iOS.

[Guest]

Any similarities to Windows Explorer are unintentional and of course too retro to be ironic

[Guest]

And US inaction here actually stifles the kind of capitalistic competition

[petter1@lemm.ee]

Like in EU..

[petter1@lemm.ee]

Brazil gonna be new US, lol

[winterfrost@lemm.ee]

I don't want to sidelode anything on my iPhone.

[atherel@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

Well you don't have to, but it's always good to have options

[abfarid@startrek.website]

Technically, sideloading is possible already, but you need a developer account, you're limited to 3 sideloaded apps at a time, and you have to renew them every week.

So the more difficult way already exists.

[winterfrost@lemm.ee]

Obviously. Better to own an android to sideload apps. More freedom there.

[Guest]

More freedom would be to choose the phone you want and sideload whatever you want to it.

[fundmecfsresearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone]

Man. I miss the FOSS Ios scene. I can’t believe that used to exist. Now it’s just a couple straggler apps and sideloading is a massive pain in the arse and jailbreaking is pretty much impossible.

[fundmecfsresearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone]

There are ways without the dev account (faked certificate), but if you use a VPN, or update your Os, apple will blacklist your device. And you also need to have some very specific DNS settings blocking a bunch of apple domains. @avieshek@lemmy.world is an expert.

[johnedwa@sopuli.xyz]

Sideloading (is supposed to) mean just transferring files between local devices, as in, you aren't uploading or downloading them, you are going sideways. E.g you download a song to your pc, then sideload it to your mp3 player.

That's also where it comes to installing phone apps, as you transfer the app file to the phone yourself.

[helpimtrappedonline@lemmy.world]

That's the whole point, to force iPhone to also have freedom.

Android is becoming less free every year; the more Apple gets away with, the closer Android/Google will drift towards it.

[tuxman@sh.itjust.works]

Ok, but what about game consoles? I don’t like how Nintendo is abusing their dominant position in the software distribution for the Switch.

[powermaker450@discuss.tchncs.de]

then don't.

it's not something your being forced to do. it's the lifting of an unnecessary restriction that in turn gives you more power on your device.

[winterfrost@lemm.ee]

Freedom comes with a cost. I'm sure Apple will find a way to earn big bucks from this sideloading of app thing.

[winterfrost@lemm.ee]

iOS is so closed source I don't think Apple is gonna give us that freedom!!

[constantpain@lemmy.world]

This will not fly here. It' will be considered "bad faith" and will incur in penalties.

They'll probably try tho, CADE will protest and the judge will make an adjustment to the rulling.

[winterfrost@lemm.ee]

I remember jailbreaking used to be a thing on iPhone then Apple slowly integrated the jailbreak features into iPhone. Then slowly jailbreaking died, I mean not literally dead but people are now unfamiliar with that thing.

[balder1991@lemmy.world]

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