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Apple should be required to let iPhone users sideload apps, Biden admin says

• kethinov 4y ago
  This is amazing news. I've been arguing this is needed since the day the App Store launched in 2008, most of the time to people who judged me as arguing for what they perceived to be a fringe view they judged to be absurd on its face. If this finally happens, it will be both a big win for user freedom and also personally quite vindicating that I called it long before it was cool to be skeptical of some of the scarier decisions that big tech companies make. I hope the antitrust regulators successfully bully Apple into finally doing the right thing. It's long overdue. Should've happened in 2008. Next do game consoles.
• fsagx 4y ago
  >Apple's iOS has always been more locked down, but Apple reportedly plans to support sideloading and third-party app stores by 2024 in response to new European Union regulations. "Let's hurry up and make that announcement so we can get some credit for making them do that thing that someone else is making them agree to do." -- someone in the Department of Commerce