Comment on Brazilian court gives Apple 90 days to allow sideloading on iOS.
Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 3 days ago
I’ve beeen an Apple user long enough to remember when “sideloading” was called “installing software.”
Enshittification is subtle and started long before we realized. Weird nerds who wanted power over skill corrupted the internet back in the late 90s.
Enshittification is subtle and started long before we realized.
No it didn’t , lot of folks have been banging on about it for decades.
Like privacy, most peole dont give a shit until it’s too late and then say but no body said anything.
I’ve been screaming into the void from the mid '90s.
There were many other weird nerds, creations of which I love finding available to me thanks to the Internet. Let’s not paint all with one brush.
I especially feel hurt over “power vs skill” comparison - my skill is mostly lacking, and I do love the power to communicate to everyone connected to the Internet using universal protocols and plethora of software that can operate over them.
I have found one thing I feel is unsolved, and my skill is impeding me at solving it, but what if I did solve it - who would use it? One man can’t make a radical change, and small steps would have already led us there if the humanity needed that.
Man. I miss the FOSS Ios scene. I can’t believe that used to exist. Now it’s just a couple straggler apps and sideloading is a massive pain in the arse and jailbreaking is pretty much impossible.
JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 2 days ago
Sideloading (is supposed to) mean just transferring files between local devices, as in, you aren’t uploading or downloading them, you are going sideways. E.g you download a song to your pc, then sideload it to your mp3 player.
That’s also where it comes to installing phone apps, as you transfer the app to the phone yourself.