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epic games right now: https://youtu.be/v79XKftN1Wo?feature=shared

This is going to be bad for customers. Imagine how much shortcuts companies are going to take now. They will have no safe guards for greedy companies.

Am I the only one that don’t like /care for this? If I want an open OS that I can load all kind of crap on. I would have gotten an android.

I have an iOS because I appreciate the security of the walled garden.

Please tell me the garden is still secure 😅

Of course it will only be for the EU. I'm sure users in other countries will find ways to get around this but I don't see them willingly to open things up where they are forced to. This isn't coming from the kindness of their hearts, keep in mind.

I'm sure Apple being Apple, is going to half bake it just enough to comply while making it a pain in the ass for users.

Any chance we get a proper version of Firefox with actual extensions

Nation State sponsored hackers surely have their calendars marked.

For iPhone users that want side loading… why not get android?

Well well we'll look which countries has freedom now.

Time to buy some META stock.

Apple is a big reason for their financial trouble. I could see them moving WhatsApp to their own hosted store to force users over and then sideload Facebook to get around tracking restrictions.

I sold it off when Apple started to clamp down. Looks like I can buy in this dip then just wait for that to climb back up.

Apples tracking restrictions are way more draconian than the EU ones.

This explains the last several months trajectory despite their future looking murky.

this would be huge in 2015. nobody cares about shops anymore, people just wanna install app and have it done. devs are out of their mind if they think they will gain on taking their app out of appstore and putting it on some alternative.

I fucking hate this so much

What does this mean? Not native English speaker and a lot of the hypothetical stuff just confused me lol.

Could this mean apps from earlier iOS versions like old games that aren’t available anymore? Emulators + ROMs?

will this do anything for emulation?

Could this bring Revanced to iPhone?

I was hoping Apple would decide to do the whole “a regulatory requirement is actually a great feature we came up with!” and allow it globally.

That being said, there are sideloading methods already. With the EU opening it up, hopefully there will be a much wider ranger of apps to side load.

Only nerds want side loading. The majority of iPhone/Apple users don't know anything outside of the Facebook App. In fact, the majority of smartphone users in general don't know what side loading is or would even care to know.