Hopefully the court was clever enought to specify that the side loading must not be more difficult than installing via the store. Apple will for sure make it as complicated and user hostile as possible so they fulfill the ruling without having any practical impact.
Brazilian court gives Apple 90 days to allow sideloading on iOS.
Submitted 2 months ago by Tea@programming.dev to technology@lemmy.world
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hummingbird@lemmy.world 2 months ago
abfarid@startrek.website 2 months ago
Technically, sideloading is possible already, but you need a developer account, you’re limited to 3 sideloaded apps at a time, and you have to renew them every week.
So the more difficult way already exists.
FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
There are ways without the dev account (faked certificate), but if you use a VPN, or update your Os, apple will blacklist your device. And you also need to have some very specific DNS settings blocking a bunch of apple domains. @avieshek@lemmy.world is an expert.
ConstantPain@lemmy.world 2 months ago
This will not fly here. It’ will be considered “bad faith” and will incur in penalties.
They’ll probably try tho, CADE will protest and the judge will make an adjustment to the rulling.
lars@lemmy.sdf.org 2 months ago
Any similarities to Windows Explorer are unintentional and of course too retro to be ironic
Petter1@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Like in EU…
themurphy@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
Brazil is really doing something together with the EU. Maybe the two should work together more.
lars@lemmy.sdf.org 2 months ago
And US inaction here actually stifles the kind of capitalistic competition
Petter1@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Brazil gonna be new US, lol
themurphy@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
In which areas? These news is certinatly not in that direction.
balder1991@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Tuxman@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Ok, but what about game consoles? I don’t like how Nintendo is abusing their dominant position in the software distribution for the Switch.
OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
- Game consoles don’t have a duopoly
- You gotta start somewhere
CluckN@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Look at Sony’s position. They are still selling the Ps5 despite it having no games.
hanrahan@slrpnk.net 2 months ago
Yeah, i went Steam in stead, Nintendo makes my skin crawl with disgust.
SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Steam Decks are legit the best console on the market.
kayazere@feddit.nl 2 months ago
I wonder if they will implement the same malicious compliance as they did in the EU with the junk core technology fees and notarization requirements.
mannycalavera@feddit.uk 2 months ago
They don’t even have to do that anymore. They can just whisper in trump’s ear… “go on… tariff them, kek”.
lars@lemmy.sdf.org 2 months ago
You hear that? It’s the sound of Tim Apple’s erection growing.
Winterfrost@lemm.ee 2 months ago
I don’t want to sidelode anything on my iPhone.
Atherel@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Well you don’t have to, but it’s always good to have options
powermaker450@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
then don’t.
it’s not something your being forced to do. it’s the lifting of an unnecessary restriction that in turn gives you more power on your device.
anas@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I want to sideload things in my iPhone. Hopefully we’ll both be able to do what we want.
Petter1@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Nice!
Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 2 months 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.
JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 2 months 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.
hanrahan@slrpnk.net 2 months ago
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.
rottingleaf@lemmy.world 2 months ago
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.
FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
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.