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Apple plans to charge fees for sideloading (9to5mac.com)

submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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

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[–] Croquette 5 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Apple influence the market a lot. So paid side-loading can propagate to other companies if Apple can pull it off.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

For sure! An amount of "hate" for apple, or any company for that matter, is totally ok. Sometimes they make decisions that screw consumers just for a buck more. No reason to hate on users, tho. That's the same as saying anyone who uses a gas vehicle to go from one place to another is in favor of global warming

[–] Croquette 2 points 11 months ago

I kinda disagree with the comparison, but I agree that it is dumb the blame the users.

However, from a certain perspective, users enable companies. So some people hate the users for that. And some other people just have a bad case of tribalism.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Sure, but why hate on apple users?

[–] Croquette 3 points 11 months ago

I am not personally hating on the apple users, but considering that people continue to buy Apple products even after these anti-consumer practices, then some people consider that the users enable the company.

So I can see where that is coming from. And some people are just tribal idiots.