Apple is the only company that can brainwash its userbase so much that they would think the allowance for sideloading as mandated by the EU will cripple their security and privacy (when in reality it can be very beneficial as it is on Android)
i mean TECHNICALLY it is more secure to not be able to sideload apps... at the cost of major user freedom and loss of control over your own device you paid money for.
its the equivalent of saying "you should never use the internet at all because there's a chance you could get a virus", its an extremely flawed logic. i think the user should always be given a choice.
apple will definitely lose money from this and i think that's their concern with having to allow sideloading, definitely moreso than privacy or security lol. apple previously has been able to monopolize and take a commission on every single app purchase or microtransaction thanks to the app store. if people sideload or use alternate app stores, apple will lose this. + some advertising revenue will be lost if sideloaded apps aren't using apple's advertising platform, etc.
The allowance for side loading isn't inherently less secure, it is the participation in side loading. But then again it would also allow for many FOSS apps, something like an F droid equivalent for iOS, which could actually be more secure alternatives to their proprietary counterparts.
Also if you are scared just don't sideload
you might be confusing the total user base with people commenting on MacRumours
The change will lose you money: PANIC
Let's be real, it's not even that the changes will lose corporations money, it's that the changes will lower their disgustingly bloated earnings by a marginal amount that makes them panic.
Or the shareholders think the change will make them lose money
Or the shareholders consider every potential ยข left on the table (no matter why) the same as losing that money, no matter how much money they're already making. Que that song from The Greatest Showman:
๐ถ All the shine of a thousand spotlights
๐ต All the stars we steal from the nightsky
๐ถ Will never be enough
๐ต Never be enough
๐ถ Towers of gold are still too little
๐ต These hands could hold the world but it'll
๐ถ Never be enough
๐ต Never be enough
๐ถ All the shine of a thousand users
๐ต All the money we steal from the sheeple
๐ถ Will never be enough
๐ต Never be enough
๐ถ Towers of data are still too little
๐ต This mind could track the world but it'll
๐ถ Never be enough
๐ต Never be enough
And now they've made a headset... of course.
Dear got I hope they don't become the norm the way the iphone did. I hate VR
I don't know if I like this change. Not allowing for sideloading means a reduction in user freedom, sure, but how much freedom does the average user care to have anyway? With the state of Apple products as it is today, I would definitely recommend them to someone who isn't technologically savvy over something that grants more freedoms because of how fool-proof it is. For the rest of us who know our way around this stuff, we have Linux. The lack of freedom in Apple products doesn't take away from the freedoms of Linux users.
There is a EU law now that forces Apple to allow sideloading in the EU. Common EU W
They have no obligations to allow that outside of the EU though.
