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Whenever I was in a discussion on HN with Apple fanboys, who were saying how happy they are with no sideloading of apps on iOS, I was telling them to imagine if
by Andrew_nenakhov 6y ago
Whenever I was in a discussion on HN with Apple fanboys, who were saying how happy they are with no sideloading of apps on iOS, I was telling them to imagine if Apple will remove the app they need for some reason, like request from an authoritarian regime. In the future I'll be pointing not only to unavailability of chat apps in China, but also to this.
Apple monopoly on iOS platform must be broken, and Apple should be forced to allow third party appstores and third party push notifications.
- pbasista 6y ago> Apple should be forced to I think that the authorities cannot be expected to solve every problem in society there is. A better approach may be to educate people about the alternatives. What Apple primarily wants, in my opinion, is to keep their users and their profits. Currently, it seems like they can take down apps for almost any reason, restrict independent repair of their devices by making the replacement parts and chips unavailable, force many simple-to-repair devices to be recycled instead of repaired, take huge cuts from the in-app purchase prices and more, with little to no impact on their sales or number of users. I am wondering why is that the case. But apparently, most people do not care.
- tzs 6y agoThat won't work, because governments that want to restrict what apps their citizens use will make a law that phones in that country must not allow sideloading. The phone makers will either have to comply or leave that country. Either way, the people in that country do not get the app.
- Andrew_nenakhov 6y agoFalse, that currently works with Android. Even in China you can still sideload any banned app and use it with VPN.