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> Fourth, at the risk of offending HN folks who self-servingly believe everyone wants or needs side-loading apps, most people benefit from the filtering of apps
by burnte 5y ago
> Fourth, at the risk of offending HN folks who self-servingly believe everyone wants or needs side-loading apps, most people benefit from the filtering of apps. Side-loading and unrestricted third party payments would simply be another attack vector.
Yes, but those people can still stick with the App Store. That's not a good reason to take that freedom away from others.
- Macha 5y agoI can see the argument here that if there are other app stores, some apps that these users would want would then be exclusive to these app stores, much like Epic does on PC, so they may be forced into using them anyway.
- Jiocus 5y agoIf Apple provided a blessed way to install Cydia[1] without jailbreaking, I would be a customer again in no time. [1]: https://cydia.saurik.com/ https://cydia.saurik.com/
- judge2020 5y agoThat would never happen for as long as you can add custom repos which might contain piracy, and I don't think Saurik would be thrilled to outright prevent the addition of certain apt repos (there's already a piracy notice).
- johnnyanmac 5y agoCompared to the current option where I have an emulator app on Android (or whichever other app you can think of) which isn't on IOS at all, only because Apple chooses to not allow most apps. Maybe others think differently, but the friction to purchase a new phone and adapt to a new ecosystem is more onerous than downloading yet another app.
- JiNCMG 5y agoBut this was never a feature (aka freedom) you were offered when you purchased the system.
- burnte 5y agoYes yes, we know that, I'm not sayign someone took it away, I'm not an idiot. I'm saying it's a bad reason to take it away, period, whether I bought the system or not.