iPhone app sideloading: Apple reportedly plans to charge fees and review apps downloaded outside of the App Store - 9to5Mac
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Apple will soon announce policy changes to conform to the Digital Markets Act in Europe, with an impending implementation deadline...

Who would’ve thought? This isn’t going to fly with the EU.

Article 5.3 of the Digital Markets Act (DMA): “The gatekeeper shall not prevent business users from offering the same products or services to end users through third-party online intermediation services or through their own direct online sales channel at prices or conditions that are different from those offered through the online intermediation services of the gatekeeper.”

Friendly reminder that you can sideload apps without jailbreaking or paying for a dev account using TrollStore, which utilises core trust bugs to bypass/spoof some app validation keys, on a iPhone XR or newer on iOS 14.0 up to 16.6.1. (ANY version for iPhone X and older)

Install guide: Trollstore

  • fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.worldEnglish
    96·
    10 months ago

    Have you actually sat down and used iOS as your full time phone OS for a week? If you’re used to android then yes there’s quirks you have to learn. But after being a diehard android user for years I could never go back. And that’s that I still use both every day since my work phone is Android and my person phone is an iPhone.

      • Dyskolos@lemmy.zipEnglish
        4·
        10 months ago

        What button? Haven’t used a button on android for years now. Except power+volume ofc

        • DAMunzy@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          2·
          10 months ago

          One of the 3 virtual buttons that always display (4 for me since I have the accessibility button displayed also). (Background, homepage, and back- reverse order for standard android. I have Samsung)

            • Soggy@lemmy.worldEnglish
              21·
              10 months ago

              I hate gesture controls. Even more fiddly and imprecise than fake buttons. Pinch zoom, scroll, and change page are more than enough.

              • Dyskolos@lemmy.zipEnglish
                3·
                10 months ago

                How come it’s more fiddly? It works soooo smooth and reliable. And that coming from a dude who can’t type one error-free word on the phone.

                • Soggy@lemmy.worldEnglish
                  11·
                  10 months ago

                  My general problem with touchscreen controls is chance of error and lack of feedback. I want buttons. I don’t want to accidentally do a thing because I idly swiped at the screen while looking away briefly.

              • focusedkiwibear@lemmy.worldEnglish
                21·
                10 months ago

                lol the gesture controls on modern smartphones are overwhelmingly less fiddly (read: not at all) than your horrible excuses for defending an outdated piece of technology like ‘buttons’ when much better options exist.

      • focusedkiwibear@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        10 months ago

        lol back button - how freaking 2000s. buddy we just move our finger left on the screen and we go back. like are you a caveman? this is Android fans these days, crowing about obsolete pieces of their technology like it was good. it wasn’t then it really isn’t now.

      • fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.worldEnglish
        33·
        10 months ago

        Swiping from the left is almost universally a go back in ios.

        With android’s gestures it simulates pressing the back button which is really awful. But iOS does swipes correctly.

        • BearOfaTime@lemm.eeEnglish
          11·
          10 months ago

          Hahaha iOS swipe is awful.

          If you 4 finger swipe now it goes back to previous app. Do it again now it goes to the app you just left. Wait a few seconds and it’s anybodies guess where it goes.

          Even worse if you bring down the “notification” screen… Supposedly swiping up makes it go away, but it rarely works. Same with pulling up the app bar while in ful screen apps - that takes two swipes, and the second one has to be just so, not too fast, not too slow, and within some weird timing - try it too soon and it just doesn’t respond.

          Apple’s swiping system is just a fucked up mess. (I use iOS all day long).

          • fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            10 months ago

            Swiping to go back to a previous app isn’t the best, but Androids implementation is just as janky. Once you figure out what the delay is for the current app to be the “latest app” then it’s not awful.

            Maybe iPad OS is different, but I don’t ever have any issues with full screen apps on regular iOS.

    • UsernameIsTooLon@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      10 months ago

      iOS always felt slower tbh. Like it takes an extra step or two to do similar tasks. That and I love sideloading, rooting, and putting my homescreen apps towards the bottom too much to ever fully switch over.

    • BearOfaTime@lemm.eeEnglish
      11·
      10 months ago

      I use iOS every day.

      It SUCKS.

      If all you want to do are the things Apple decides you can do, and want to do things only Apple’s way, it’s great.

      I choose Apple phones for my work phone, since it’s managed by the company anyway, so even an Android would be locked down. And it’s not like I would use a corp phone for the things I do with my personal phone - there’s too much risk in that.

      Apple won’t even allow apps to sync photos automatically. I don’t want to use their cloud, at all. I just want photos I take synced between my devices using a single tool. No reason for those photos to go anywhere else.

      Currently I sync files, automatically, between a dozen devices. All my photos from every laptop and Android phone go to the same folder on one machine. Anything I download with any device is available, almost immediately, for all other devices.

      Except for my iOS devices. They can’t play in this game, even though the same apps are available on iOS.

      • fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        10 months ago

        If all you want to do are the things Apple decides you can do, and want to do things only Apple’s way, it’s great.

        Which is what most people want to do, and that’s why so many people love the iPhone.

        Supposedly photo sync will back up all your photos to a local machine. iCloud does everything you’d want it to do minus the local server part. But once again that’s not what 99% of people want to do.