App stores are the worst thing to happen to phone tech. Back in the Nokia days there were no restrictions on installing any app you want as there were no official app stores and that’s how it should be, imagine if Microsoft made it impossible to install apps outside of its windows app store, no would accept that, so why do we accept it for mobiles OS’s
They have already done that twice with Windows RT and Windows 10 S/S Mode.
Yup tried and failed
imagine if Microsoft made it impossible to install apps outside of its windows app store, no would accept that, so why do we accept it for mobiles OS’s
I felt like Apple was going down that route. You have to jump through so many hoops to run programs that aren’t signed by one of their $99/y certificates.
The final drop for me when I was unable to remove Music.app. it’s on a shadowed read-only partition that rebooting updates write to. Extra many hoops to unlock the same to do changes to it (that might make stuff flaky).
Hasn’t apple always been anti sideloading, and anti jail braking, people who want those options stick to android, but even Google is trying to become like Apple in that regard these days, years ago when I joined this industry I didn’t think it would become so insidious and evil, I wish I could change careers but now it’s too late
You can already see an example somewhere…:
iPhone, iOS, China, Great Firewall, VPN Apps. (VPN apps can’t be found in China’s version of the Apple App Store) And of course, it’s iOS, it already doesn’t have “sideloading”.
Westerners pay attention, because that’s the future we’re getting. The Splinternet and the end of Freedom.
Linux Phone take me away!
