As a user of both iOS and Android, I don’t think this is a bad choice.
Sideloading doesn’t mean everyone is gonna download .ipa from sketchy websites and then causing the phone to go nuts or something like that. I think for the majority of iOS users won’t even care about this feature at all. One benefit I can think of is that you don’t have to switch or create a new account to download apps from other regions such as gamers who want to play games from Japan or Korea or China. Another that I can think is to rollback the update of apps in case the newer version got bugged or have issue with it.
Even for Android users, like me, most of us didn’t blindly download apps whether from Play Store or sideloading it. It’s only a fringe case and most of the “malware” apps that were on Play store, historically, are utilities apps like gallery, pic editing, note and stuff that most already have included in nearly every the brands from stock android like google to bloated like MIUI. So calling Android as “malware-ridden” is very much like calling iOS as “OS for brain dead people”. It doesn’t have to always be like that.
I think even the majority of Android users don’t agree with this EU regulation. As I said, it’s already a fringe case for people to sideload the apps despite Android already having like 5-6 trustworthy app stores. So I don’t see this as an issue at all as it’s a choice for people to sideload.
And I think BOTH Android & iOS have already implemented some systems to make sure you know what you’re doing before sideloading apps. It’s basically the same as how iOS did when asking for permission to access this and that.
Ps. For me, I’m just curious how they’re going to implement this when both aren’t using the same coding language to write the apps (Kotlin on Android vs Swift/Obj-C on iOS).
Ah yes because Apple are totally going to make it obvious to non-tech-literate users that they can sideload apps
Wow, I must say your family is very brave if they ask for tech advice from someone who is suggesting iPhone because he is afraid that malware on Android will make his tech-advising task more difficult.
To be clear - I have tech-supported hundreds if not thousands of people over the last 10 years, I have never seen any piece of malware on any Android device. It is almost impossible to download malware on any Android device that runs Google Play and it has been the case for many years.
This shit isn’t even funny anymore lol.
600 million users were infected from official Google Play Store alone in 2023.
https://www.kaspersky.com/blog/malware-in-google-play-2023/49579/
I don’t really want this on my iPhone I’d like it on AppleTV though
Apple just recently patched a 0day vulnerability that requires no interaction anyone who thinks iPhone is “secure” is dumb af.
Terrible take.
I definitely didn’t had most controversial topic of a day in r/iphone in my bingo card…
Malware ridden…
Oh, the Horror of Personal Freedom and being able to do with your Phone whatever you want 💀😂
Can’t to be able to finally load Ringtones without going to that cumbersome process of finding the Sound File, downloading the Sound File, saving the Sound File on the Phone, importing it into Garage Band, converting it to a Ringtone, saving the Ringtone and finally being able to set it as a Ringtone 💀
In 3utools you can create a ringtone and transfer it to iPhone as a ringtone
Oh the horror of opening security holes that you specifically avoided android because of
Why does the EU think that people don’t have a choice? If you REALLY wanted sideloading you can just buy an android
that’s a horrible argument tbh
It will probably be enough of a pain in the ass that most people won’t know how to use it
Side loading is the feature why I chose to switch to iPhone after always having an android.
Any problem that an Apple fanboy points out with sideloading doesn’t exist in real life.
“Apps will be out from the App Store and everyone will have their own store” not even Fortnite managed to do that on Android, people don’t wanna download and create an account into a new store just to get one app.
“I’m afraid my nanny will download a malware ridden app from a shady website” this isn’t a thing even on modern Windows, both Android and iOS are super closed that you can’t do much harm to the OS without root/jailbreak.
You can also do this on Mac and people have no issues with it. Do you tell people not to get a mac because they can download a virus by accident?
Mac marketshare is extremely low so no incentive for bad actors to work hard on it… iPhone on the other hand is best selling smart phone on the planet, so, yeah.
I don’t buy this argument. None of these OSes are the biggest in their category. 8% or 29%. If someone wants their virus to target the most popular platform they will develop it for Windows and Android. MacOS and iOS will always come second.
As long as sideloaded apps follow the same sandbox model as approved apps, I am not against it.
