That's essentially what is happening. However, more power to Tesla if they can enforce it. If one doesn't like the terms, don't buy the product. As with an iphone a Cybertruck is a lifestyle product.
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iPhone App Sideloading Coming to Users in the EU in First Half of 2024
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You're free to stay within the App Store...
...or misinterpret the purpose of this regulation entirely.
This simply isn’t true. Inevitably, there will be some mission critical app that decides to not use the App Store that you will have to enable app sideloading in order to install it. And the big companies that want more of your data and don’t want to be limited by Apple’s privacy restrictions will likely remove their apps from the App Store and only offer them via sideloading. Arguing people will be able to not enable sideloading doesn’t really hold up when that happens. Scammers trick the non-technologically literate to grant them access to their computers via VNC software, how much more of these kinds of scams will exist when scammers can convince people to install malicious apps that will be less obviously scammy than granting them full access to their computers…
In such future I will give up smartphone, return back to pay cash only and if I’d like a game- I can play in nearest local park…..
OK, so should be warning as if something after side loading came wrong- in such case warranty will be terminated even for 1 day old iPhone
Me the same, I have about 80 applets in 10 years on iPhone- I bought them and paid full version without advertising-don’t need any junk
Or maybe that's just simply not true for everyone. Personally, I'd say what's on my Mac is at least as sensitive, if not more so, than the data on my phone, not to mention that there's a lot more of it on my Mac.
Just a prediction and morale note once more to who protect Apple walled garden, look China where Apple dances like CCP tells and lot of apps are banned or replaced with China friendly apps and if sideloading could work then users could use freedom respecting apps to communicate.
That would be stupid. Android already has APKs and if Apple implements something like that(and isn't deliberately making it an easy entrance for viruses), it shouldn't be an issue.I wonder how many will install questionable apps and then blame Apple for data loss.You will see how many people will say that iPhones are no longer as secure.
I can already see the headlines in the manipulative media
They haven't done it on MacOS. Or the Play Store. Meta is shooting themselves in the foot if they move it to there. And most people won't go through the effort of sideloading.
Companies will likely stay on the App Store. Unlike Android, most of the userbase is on the App Store.
Tim Cook will never come back to Apple. Investors will pretty much pull off a coup if he does that. Also, it's not doing anything bad. The government should step in when a company refuses to do something that should be included on a phone. If Apple cripples video sent between iPhones and Androids, the government should mandate that they improve it if there is no viable alternative. If Apple allowed sideloading, it would be a PR victory, just like USBC.
Having all the killer apps on it would make sideloading useless for most. Apple could do this.
It wouldn’t. You can have all the killer apps you want, but if they are crippled compared to other stores won’t save it.
Just take the mac AppStore and steam. Apple had the killer apps and still succeeded in suffocating itself by self sabotage
Except it already is an issue on all non-iOS platforms. Malware is a trillion dollar industry.
MacOS and the Play Store don't have the same privacy protections as the App Store, so Meta has different incentives on those platforms.
Most of the userbase is on the Play Store for Android.
They don't have a store on MacOS, because the market isn't big enough on Mac. They don't have a store on Android, because they would want to unify their mobile efforts. (so not until they can also do so on iOS)
On Windows it's not necessary. Also you might not know, but Whatsapp is the most used communication app in Europe. Above even iMessage and SMS.
They might absolutely force users to a "Meta Store" if that means they can sell more ads. It's not 100% sure that it's going to happen, but it's also not 0%. And that is scary enough.
Only two things that could help us:
1. Meta is also a gatekeeper, and especially with Whatsapp.
2. GDPR might block this.
But that would be relying on the EU to fix problems caused by the EU.
