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> This provides no basis for comparison because the App Store has been the only way to install apps on iOS This has never been the case. You’ve always been abl
by RKearney 8y ago
> This provides no basis for comparison because the App Store has been the only way to install apps on iOS
This has never been the case. You’ve always been able to side load apps that are either signed by an Enterprise code signing cert (used to be $300/yr), or your own developer code signing certificate ($99/yr). The former allowed for redistribution outside of the App Store.
- AnthonyMouse 8y agoNeither of those methods permits the general public to install the app.
- askafriend 8y agoGood, imo.
- binomialxenon 8y agoOkay, I used to be an iOS user, I'm not rich, and blowing $99 per year to sign apps is a lot of money for something that should be free. What if I'm just a normal techie who wants to use software that Apple doesn't like? Sure, bury sideloading in the settings or make it only able to be activated from a computer, but charging that much money for the privilege of loading software is ridiculous.
- sbuk 8y ago> ...for something that should be free What reason should it be for?
- binomialxenon 8y agoThe reason that my devices belong to me.
- sbuk 8y agoThe devices do, the software doesn’t.
- binomialxenon 8y agoAnd that's why I'm no longer an iOS user.
- RKearney 8y agoYou can sign and run apps on your own device for free now. You no longer have to pay $99.
- mmebane 8y agoYou can, but you have to reinstall them once a week, AFAIK.
- RKearney 8y agoThey absolutely can and absolutely did back in the day. Now it’s even easier because you can load apps on to your own device for free via Xcode. Anyone who claims Apple prevented side loading clearly never bothered to research that claim.