Here’s what I believe : yes, sideloading is a security issue and will never not be. However, this applies to every platform. Using this as a justification for not allowing it is like using terrorism as a justification for locking yourself up in a door-less, window-less room for the rest of your life. Would it be safer? Yes. Would it be a good experience? No.

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if or when side loading comes to iPhone I bet we will see a new Cydia store

Still don’t understand with those mentality that hates anything that against Apple’s decision. Like, what’s wrong with having more option? Mac already has this for decades and is that becomes a disaster I don’t think so?

“BuT hoW aBouT tHoSe tEcH iLLiTeRaTe pEoPLe” you, as someone who understands tech, should teach them, to not install anything outside App Store. It ain’t that hard. It’s not my fault if you’re too lazy to do that.

And finally, this side loading can gives me much more positive impact. First, no more Safari-based 3rd part browser. I can finally install a real Chrome that based on Blink, or a real Firefox that based on Gecko. Second, I can install some older games/apps that’s no longer available on App Store (literally also some advantage of having a Windows device/Android, you can run old apps on it). And last, emulators, baby! Can wait to use my iPad Mini as some Switch or PS3 emulator. Don’t forget about FOSS too, but I won’t mention it here.

What are you waiting for? Piracy? Hahaha but no, that’s not the main reason why we loves side loading.

If side loading creates security issues, I don’t want it.

Why sideload? It’s safer with apple gate keeping all the nasty shit and malpractices.

Why not let others also run secure App Store, w/o sideloading? Or pull out of Europe altogether if they worry so much about security?

Unrealistic, but would be funny if apple just go “fuck EU, I’m not selling them phones anymore” route

May be Apple wouldn’t have been forced to allow sideloading if they hadn’t resorted to monopolistic practices and extorted profits from developers.

This is exciting news, I can’t wait to be able to sideloads the apps I want without using the Apple one. Having this on my Pixel (for YEARS AND YEARS) has been amazing.

It’s my phone, I bought it with my own money.

Let the users do whatever they want with THEIR device!

My issue with side loading is what the developers can bake into the app “features” that Apple and its security departments won’t know. Could be metrics and gps data, keylogger, maybe it lets you share malware or tracker software via an exploit with airdrop. Who knows what’s out there but I don’t trust any company to adhere to data privacy rules. It’s been done time and again and results in a lawsuit to delete said data.

I dont really understand why people want it. Many of us got this out of our system in our youth on Androids. The shit apps you have to sideload are 99.9% of the time shit apps. And thats best case scenario.

Unwillingly agreed.

All apple has to do is to not charge so much for subscriptions to the point where you need to subscribe from a computer to avoid taxes and this wouldn’t have happened

Regulate your greed or UE is coming from you