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iOS sideloading is awful. What if you don't have a Mac? What if you need to spend a week away from yours? What if you want to load something and forget it? Ther
by mod50ack 5y ago
iOS sideloading is awful. What if you don't have a Mac? What if you need to spend a week away from yours? What if you want to load something and forget it? There is nothing like F-Droid on iOS, and there never could be. Granted, this affects enthusiasts more than the average user, but it's still a key difference.
At least you can use extensions on iOS Safari now. This is a major step forward from when I last used an iPhone (iPhone 6 before I switched to Android). On the other hand, you cannot switch rendering engines (as I have, to Gecko with Fennec), nor is there likely to ever be a way to install an extension such as "Bypass Paywalls Clean", which I have in Fennec --- an essential for me, among a number of other great FF extensions).
As for iSH, I again must commend Apple for a step forward, as there was no way this would have been allowed a few years ago. It's true that it runs in emulation rather than natively as Termux does, but still, not a bad step. (Termux, btw, can be allowed to access any of the user files, but can't touch the root fs on Android without rooting.)