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Yes. Only in the EU and only since 2024 when Apple was forced to do it by new laws. It’s reasonable to assume Google would be subject to the same laws.

If you live outside if the EU, it’s “no sideload for you!” There are computer programs that can do sideloading to iPhones, but they have limitations, like having to refresh the sideloaded apps every seven days.

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Arcane2077@sh.itjust.works ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Wholly incorrect. You’re allowed to sideload up to 3 apps (or 10 appIDs, whichever comes first) without being a developer, if you’re in any part of the world. In the EU you’re allowed to install third party app stores, which isn’t sideloading

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- suigenerix@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  The limitations depend on which program you’re using - there’s more than one - which is why I only gave a simple example.
  
  Side loading is installing an app from anywhere but the official store. So by definition “third party” is side loading. Whether it’s another store or authorised is irrelevant.
  
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  - Arcane2077@sh.itjust.works ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    
    The limitations depend on which program you’re using - there’s more than one - which is why I only gave a simple example.
    
    No it doesn’t. It’s in all the documentation, official and otherwise
    
    Side loading is installing an app from anywhere but the official store. So by definition “third party” is side loading. Whether it’s another store or authorised is irrelevant.
    
    You can’t just make up a definition, believe it, and then share it like it’s true. We’re going by the legal definition as that’s the only one that counts.
    
    Apple only allows up to 3 apps or 10 appIDs to be sideloaded, wherever you are in the world. Period.
    
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    suigenerix@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Youre not getting it. The developers of the tools can and do impose their own additional limitations. They’re still limitations of the programs which is what we were taking about.
    
    And it doesn’t matter what limitations Apple imposes in its walled garden, their phones can still be jail broken and side loaded in the more traditional way.
    
    The concept of sideloading is a general term that applies to multiple platforms, not something Apple owns or gets to dictate. No one is making up anything here.
    
    www.twingate.com/blog/glossary/side-loading
    
    Sideloading is the process of installing applications on a device from sources other than the official app stores.
    
    dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/…/sideload
    
    the practice of putting software on a computer or mobile phone, without using the official way of buying the software
    
    zimperium.com/glossary/sideloading
    
    Sideloading is the practice of installing mobile apps on a device that are not from the official app stores
    
    Etc.
    
    If your argument requires cherry picking, ignoring key points, and baseless ad homenims, it’s not a good point.
    
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