Comment on iOS 17.2 hints at Apple moving towards letting users sideload apps from outside the App Store

• Anafabula@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  It is, but apple forces all browsers to be reskinned safari under the hood

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• thechadwick@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Only safari (webkit} shells. There’s been rumors of apple preparing to open up that requirement for appstore approval, but hasn’t happened yet as far as I know.

  Honestly that, and not being able to side load, are the only things holding me from switching. Yes I could get a pixel and install graphene OS on it, but I don’t have time for that anymore and I just want a simple solution that gets support out of the box, and allows me to run the apps I want.

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  • hamsterkill@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I’m going so far as to say I’d switch – but I’d certainly get an iPhone and give it a try if it had sideloading/other app stores allowed (which in turn would allow other browser engines, since that’s a store limitation). Would love to see an F-Droid equivalent for iOS start up.

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