> Apple has had choice to allow side-loading. They had that choice, and they've chosen not to. This, on one hand, keeps you from side-loading 2GIS, but on the

> Apple has had choice to allow side-loading. They had that choice, and they've chosen not to. This, on one hand, keeps you from side-loading 2GIS, but on the other hand, keeps seniors' iPhones from crapware (as per TLA). > That's not the problem with Android The wider problem is what will happen when your side-loaded APK will need to make a TLS connection to 2GIS website, but its TLS certificate has been declared invalid by the cert authority (because sanctions). Or what will happen when the BGP routing protocol will direct the traffic to 2GIS website to go to a sinkhole (because sanctions). Or what will happen when 2GIS web servers from HP and Dell will be rendered inoperable by a remote command (because sanctions). > it's funny that Europe pushing for side-loading could potentially help with by-passing sanctions. No doubt Linux, OpenOffice, and RISC-V will be of tremendous help to Putin's Russia.