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I am maybe the anomaly in this crowd (I also don't develop apps for iPhones) but I appreciate the security benefits that Apple puts on people. Sure it comes at

I am maybe the anomaly in this crowd (I also don't develop apps for iPhones) but I appreciate the security benefits that Apple puts on people. Sure it comes at a cost of "freedom" of applications that I could put on my phone, but it gives me a bit of piece of mind that my aging parents and my nieces and nephews are able to use the phone without downloading very risky applications (I mean there are still risks abound, but it decreases it significantly). There are already enough security flaws that continue to be patched up on an on-going basis that it seems unnecessary to open this level of risk for their client base. One less thing I need to worry about. Understand I am fairly alone in this perspective.

HatchedLake721 5y ago
You’re not alone in this. You can be alone in this in the tech bubbles where developers suggest mums use Kubernetes to run their knitting blogs and complain why they can’t run Docker on their iPads. Outside of this, while Apple has a financial incentive for the status quo, they also care about customer experience (we know Apple is laser focused about this even in the pre App Store years and decades). And on the whole, sideloading will do more harm than good.