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The one thing I don't understand about Apple's stance: why don't they let a device owner sideload things SAFELY on their own device? Something like the Apple De
by alanfranz 6y ago
The one thing I don't understand about Apple's stance: why don't they let a device owner sideload things SAFELY on their own device? Something like the Apple Developer Account, but for free, and I get a certificate that works on a single device - my own - ONLY.
I still need to understand software development, and probably to own a Mac just to sign things and to upload them to my phone. They could even provide something like a web interface to perform the signing and/or notarization, so people cannot invent magical desktop software to make signing easier for random users.
This would effectively defeat the "walled garden" objection, but make things hard enough that 99.99% of iphone users wouldn't bother.
With the notarization system (is it applied to ios apps as well, I suppose, not just to Mac apps?) they could even prevent piracy.
- weejewel 6y agoIf I were Epic then, I’d make a button in the Epic Games Launcher which does this for the user.
- alanfranz 6y agoYou would still need a Mac, then to register with Apple as a developer, then connect the iphone with a cable. For each update, you need to reupload manually. And for each game - you could not upload a store app - you would need to repeat the whole procedure.