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But the question is why you shouldn't be able to sideload an app at all. Having a curated store is pretty cool, and you can have that while also letting users i
by phreack 5y ago
But the question is why you shouldn't be able to sideload an app at all. Having a curated store is pretty cool, and you can have that while also letting users install their own apps manually (even with barriers, making it as hard as they like).
- balls187 5y agoApple's stance was (IIRC from my days as a mobile dev--it may have since changed) was instead of side-loading of apps, that there is the web, and people would be free to utilize webapps. ios Safari puts in place some limitation (sandboxing, constraint device apis) to guard against malicious actors, but it is not curated the same way ios App Store is.
- elzbardico 5y agoJust refuse to buy an IPhone and buy only android phones. It is not like you don't have an option. But for me and a lot of people, apple's walled garden is a feature, not a bug. I don't see why apple should be forced to change it just because YOU don't like it, when it is not like you're forced to have an iOS device.
- plorkyeran 5y agoDevelopers only put up with the curated app store because it's the only option. If there was an alternative, major companies would mostly choose to bypass the app store, leaving it a barren wasteland like the Mac app store. If Apple allowed sideloading but went out of their way to make it obnoxious enough that everything which could be would still go through the app store, you'd just have all of the exact same complaints about how Apple is deliberately making things painful for users.
- phreack 5y agoBut that's not the case at all with Android and has never been. I don't think any of that would happen, the vast majority seems to stick with the default app store, while the rare technical user who wants to sideload has the freedom to do so, everyone wins.