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The feature will be tied to your apple id, obviously.
by jacknews 4y ago
The feature will be tied to your apple id, obviously.
- 1over137 4y agoOh that would suck. I've had an iPhone since the week they were first released, but never associated an Apple ID with one. My whole beef with the App Store is it requires telling Apple who I am. If you have to associate your phone with an Apple ID to get sideloading then this is hardly progress for me.
- vxNsr 4y agoHow have you used an iPhone without an Apple ID? 90% of the features are useless without it…
- EMIRELADERO 4y agoThat would actually be illegal under the DMA: [...]gatekeepers shall: [...](f) refrain from requiring business users or end users to subscribe to or register with any other core platform services identified pursuant to Article 3 or which meets the thresholds in Article 3(2)(b) as a condition to access, sign up or register to any of their core platform services identified pursuant to that Article "Operating systems" is part of the "core platform services" definition. Locking the use of iOS or sideloading capabilities behind an Apple ID (another "core platform service") would be a violation of the provision.
- jacknews 4y agoBut that's the European law. Nothing stopping them locking sideloading for US Apple IDs I think? I mean they can't require an EU apple ID in order to access the sideloading feature, but they could deny it to US apple IDs.
- arlcode 4y agoThey'll have to provide a way for edge cases like if someone moves from the US to the EU. In General the US government will have to come up with their own version of the DMA if they or their voters deem it important.