I think you're onto something with the installer idea. Curious to think how it would work technically and UX-wise on iOS. Maybe users go to Facebook's mobile we

I think you're onto something with the installer idea. Curious to think how it would work technically and UX-wise on iOS. Maybe users go to Facebook's mobile website to download the installer's binary. (Apple would probably just ban apps that are just installers for unreviewed apps, so Meta couldn't host the installer there.) Interesting to imagine how'd that go for them, as going through a webpage does complicate things for casual users. (And savvy users who might be turned off by it.) Makes me wonder too if Apple might end up enforcing indirect app review outside of the App Store. They could bundle the iOS equivalent to Microsoft Defender, basically Apple's built-in security tool. It could mark binaries found in the wild as unsafe if Apple discovered them to be misusing permissions or to be malware. If iOS apps can just be sideloaded, they should still be inspectable...