Many of the popular apps are free anyways and make revenue from in app purchases or subscription fees. If the cost of apps are low enough, piracy will still exist yeah, but probably won’t be that big a deal. Only time will tell but the existence of piracy isn’t a good enough reason (in my book) to restrict choice and the ability for users to install the apps they wish to install.
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New U.S. Antitrust Bill Would Require Apple and Google to Allow Third-Party App Stores and Sideloading
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Malware can already get onto your iPhone by simply visiting the wrong webpage (no click necessary) and there are several examples where the review process of Apple was not able to prevent malicious apps from getting into the App Store.
Perhaps these politicians should wait for the EPIC vs Apple judge's verdict.
No, but the difference is if I encounter a business refusing to accept a payment method that I’d like to use, I can most likely go to a different store (physical or online) and pay them instead. That encourages the former business to accept my preferred payment method and rewards the business that didn’t make it difficult for me to buy from them. Competition is great.
Here’s the issue: Where else do I go to get iOS apps? What’s the App Store’s competition? The Play Store, with basically the same terms? (It’s also not like you can just take a completed iOS app and throw it on Android if nanny Apple says no, either — in general, you’ll need to start over from scratch.)
You already have an alternative, it’s called Android. Use it and leave the iOS users alone. Win/win.
Install whatever you want, just don’t force Apple to help you do it.
Really, really curious what Marsha Blackburn is getting out of this. She's never met a private company she didn't think should be allowed to take over the world. Except Google and Apple, apparently.
I'd understand if this was aimed at Twitter or Facebook ("anti-conservative bias," cried the children) but it's unclear to me what she gets out of trying to regulate Apple.
This is the same woman who introduced a bill to make illegal mask mandates on public transportation, as well as the Stop COVID Act of 2021, which does not mean what you think it does (instead meaning "Stop China-Originated Viral Infectious Diseases Act of 2021"). She has also tried repeatedly to outlaw municipal broadband and net neutrality.
I'd understand if this was aimed at Twitter or Facebook ("anti-conservative bias," cried the children) but it's unclear to me what she gets out of trying to regulate Apple.
This is the same woman who introduced a bill to make illegal mask mandates on public transportation, as well as the Stop COVID Act of 2021, which does not mean what you think it does (instead meaning "Stop China-Originated Viral Infectious Diseases Act of 2021"). She has also tried repeatedly to outlaw municipal broadband and net neutrality.
i don’t even want it on the phone, too much of a risk for hacking and plague of problems await
I am a developer.
I don't want Android. I want an open iOS the way I have an open MacOS.
Then use android, iOS is known for the wall garden and security, funny how people were so against the photos on iCloud on severs the other day but it’s okay to have access to the phone by developers
Sideloading necessarily involves software obtained outside of channels the manufacturer controls. Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo all control the disc or cart-based channels that convey software for their respective consoles.
Try again.
So business as usual for Google, but big changes at Apple.
Apple should allow sideloading, but it should be buried under several layers of menu. There won't be any I accidentally turn on install from unknown source BS. If y'all turned on sideloading/3rd party appstore, you knew what you wanted. Caveat emptor.
I would never install a 3rd party appstore, but I would make use of sideloading. Old versions of some apps are so much better than the new versions.
Apple should allow sideloading, but it should be buried under several layers of menu. There won't be any I accidentally turn on install from unknown source BS. If y'all turned on sideloading/3rd party appstore, you knew what you wanted. Caveat emptor.
I would never install a 3rd party appstore, but I would make use of sideloading. Old versions of some apps are so much better than the new versions.
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Punishment for success. I will still only download from Apple's app store but that is my decision.
Will I be able to download apps from anywhere on my smart TV now. How about on my car's system. Will be interesting to see how many developers leave the Apple store and go elsewhere
Will I be able to download apps from anywhere on my smart TV now. How about on my car's system. Will be interesting to see how many developers leave the Apple store and go elsewhere
I choose not to use a 3rd party store, but at also at the same time, I don't really load apps. Just makes me wonder if some of the developers will just migrate their stuff to third party stores and some of those handful of apps are ones that I use. Also it wouldn't surprise me if Apple invalidates warranty work if you have a third party store or app. Don't know if they can do that though.
This is the same silly argument that the recording and film industries have been making for years. They assume that people who illegally pirated their content would’ve purchased it under different circumstances, and this has been found to be wrong.
Supporting links to come.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy...llegal-downloads-dont-equal-17000-lost-sales/
https://www.wired.co.uk/article/music-piracy-doesnt-hurt-sales
https://freakonomics.com/2012/01/12/how-much-do-music-and-movie-piracy-really-hurt-the-u-s-economy/
If you don’t want to side load, don’t. If you want to stay safely within the confines of the App Store, do so. That’s your choice.
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Just for the sake of discussion - why not?
What if it were an all Indie Games app store with super minimal fees that allowed small creators to really thrive?
There's a lot of great things that can come when removing the financial burden of massive Apple fees.
Don't like it. I want my phone to be (relatively) bug and malware-free.
macOS has remained relatively so (arguably) because it's a relatively tiny fraction of the workstation market. iOS has HUGE market share, and will thus be low-hanging fruit for bad actors without a gatekeeper
macOS has remained relatively so (arguably) because it's a relatively tiny fraction of the workstation market. iOS has HUGE market share, and will thus be low-hanging fruit for bad actors without a gatekeeper
That being the case, don't you think the spyware ramifications are a lot more pronounced when installed on mobile iOS devices that uses GPS for locations, versus a Mac?
I'm not sure they could do that.
Third party app stores aren't going to have low level access in a way that would allow the software to nuke the hardware.
I agree. Unfortunately with the M1 chip MacOS is also increasingly getting closed off.
Huh? Of course people download apps to their iPhone. If you don't, then you're like in the 0.0001% of iPhone owners 🤣
How so? Because you can't run boot camp? Give it time you'll have Win compatibility eventually (ARM)
Stay out of my App Store government. Worry about fixing yourself before screwing up things you know nothing about.
👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 This has also been my perspective from the beginning. Why macOS and not iOS? Make them both open, and give us the choice.