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

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[semi_hemi_demigod@lemmy.world]

I’ve beeen an Apple user long enough to remember when “sideloading” was called “installing software.”

Enshittification is subtle and started long before we realized. Weird nerds who wanted power over skill corrupted the internet back in the late 90s.

[rottingleaf@lemmy.world]

There were many other weird nerds, creations of which I love finding available to me thanks to the Internet. Let's not paint all with one brush.

I especially feel hurt over "power vs skill" comparison - my skill is mostly lacking, and I do love the power to communicate to everyone connected to the Internet using universal protocols and plethora of software that can operate over them.

I have found one thing I feel is unsolved, and my skill is impeding me at solving it, but what if I did solve it - who would use it? One man can't make a radical change, and small steps would have already led us there if the humanity needed that.

[themurphy@lemmy.ml]

Brazil is really doing something together with the EU. Maybe the two should cooperate more.

[kayazere@feddit.nl]

I wonder if they will implement the same malicious compliance as they did in the EU with the junk core technology fees and notarization requirements.

[hummingbird@lemmy.world]

Hopefully the court was clever enought to specify that the side loading must not be more difficult than installing via the store. Apple will for sure make it as complicated and user hostile as possible so they fulfill the ruling without having any practical impact.

[mannycalavera@feddit.uk]

They don't even have to do that anymore. They can just whisper in trump's ear..... "go on... tariff them, kek".

[Guest]

You hear that? It’s the sound of Tim Apple’s erection growing.

[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.