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In my view, Apple has been slow to make iOS more flexible and less restrictive. I'm hoping that some of the above limitations would be removed in some way in an
by newscracker 9y ago
In my view, Apple has been slow to make iOS more flexible and less restrictive. I'm hoping that some of the above limitations would be removed in some way in another few years.
Allowing a third party app to be set as default for some function could be done right now, but Apple doesn't seem to think it has any incentive to do so. I'm not expecting that change anytime soon, or ever.
Some other changes will be done in a methodical way without compromising on the app sandbox and other restrictions placed on apps to maintain privacy and security (if not enhance them). I'm guessing third party browsers with their own engines could come to iOS within a few years.
Some other limitations, like allowing apps from a non-App Store sources (except the Xcode side loading available now, for which a Mac is required), would never be lifted.
- kbenson 9y ago> Some other limitations, like allowing apps from a non-App Store sources (except the Xcode side loading available now, for which a Mac is required), would never be lifted. A Mac and $99 a year. That's not cheap, and given how infrequently I replace my phone, might be up to an additional 50% on the base cost, even if you have the Mac. Around 2011 or 2012 I wanted to play around with making an iPhone app. I never did because I didn't have a Mac and didn't want to pay hundreds of dollars and a $99 fee on top of that just to play around.
- kalleboo 9y agoSince Xcode 7, a free dev account is all you need to sideload. $99 is now just if you want to distribute apps.
- kbenson 9y agoWell, that's half the problem down, now they just need to ship Xcode for Windows or Linux. I used a Mac for work for a couple years 5-6 years ago. It wasn't horrible, but it definitely grated in areas. Mainly in how the window manager switches applications, and windows within the application with different commands, and for my usual workflow (lots of terminals and a browser) that was extremely annoying. It might not have grated so much if I wasn't coming from a custom FVWM config I had been revising for over a decade, but the limitations of the OS X window manager were maddening at the time.
- lern_too_spel 9y agoOr if you plan to use your app for more than 7 days. https://www.reddit.com/r/jailbreak/comments/4hotx3/news_free_developer_account_installs_reduced_to_7/ https://www.reddit.com/r/jailbreak/comments/4hotx3/news_free...