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While being developed mostly likely to take the most spiteful/limited approach to sideloading they can, it's worth noting just how scary this system is, in that

While being developed mostly likely to take the most spiteful/limited approach to sideloading they can, it's worth noting just how scary this system is, in that it seemingly well could be or could develop into a nation-state controlled over the air tool to deny ad-hoc capabilities on a phone. Rather than there being some kind of protest or strike & the government disconnects the internet, with countryd here there seemingly is potential to fine-grained flip flags for what people can do on their devices at will. Apple's regime of securing phones against their users intensifies. Amazing that Apple is making such bold leaps towards 1984 grade systems to spite & be petty about sideloading, is sliding into even worse paternalistic authoritarianism. To see a company so bitterly & visibly fight on the dark side of The War Against General Purpose Computing is incredible. The rebel anti-1984 Think Different spirit is writhing in it's grave, could not be more betrayed by these petty small minded chumps.

junofan 4y ago
Apple has had plans for 10+ yrs AFAIK for China and Russia. All a totalitarian regime needs to do is say the word.
ChatGTP 4y ago
Can you name a single for profit technology or tech company that doesn’t seem dystopian anymore ? The whole world seems to have an “inevitable dystopia” vibe about it to me. Open AI + Governments + World coin is the absolute epitome of it for me personally.
D13Fd 4y ago
I couldn’t disagree more. On my Mac and PC, I write tons of little programs and scripts to make my day easier. It’s great that any and all software runs. But on my phone, I just want it to work reliably every time I pull it out of my pocket. I don’t want to hear from the rent-a-car place that I have to side-load their crappy invasive malware app on my phone if I want to rent a car (or do the same to order food at a hospital, or to use my new printer, or to shop at my grocery store, and on and on). Sideloading will open the floodgates to horrible crappy malware- or spyware-ridden apps that companies will force you to install, without the protections and benefits offered by the App Store. No thanks.
- flangola7 4y ago
  No it won't or that would already be the case on Android. Your fears are entirely fabricated
  - consumer451 4y ago
    I have heard that the DJI control app requires sideloading on Android. That's a huge install base and seems to be a sign of a pretty bad system, no? The system being that an major app provider wants to do something potentially shady, and the sideloading system allows it.
- rektide 4y ago
  It hasn't been a problem on Android ever. No one expects folks to bypass the Google App Store. More so though, I think it's incredibly malignant a position to demand everyone else be trapped on a Think Apple paradigm forever. You're putting an extreme outside risk with no signs of being a problem ahead of everyone else having basic liberty to use the most important most popular electronic device on the planet (the smartphone) as they wish. Apple should split into two companies if this is the path they want. The iPhone control apple shouldn't be given license to ruin & piss on the Think Different past like this. The small hew & cry of "I dont want to think" or let anyone else think is just the saddest.

junofan 4y ago

Apple has had plans for 10+ yrs AFAIK for China and Russia. All a totalitarian regime needs to do is say the word.

ChatGTP 4y ago

Can you name a single for profit technology or tech company that doesn’t seem dystopian anymore ? The whole world seems to have an “inevitable dystopia” vibe about it to me. Open AI + Governments + World coin is the absolute epitome of it for me personally.

D13Fd 4y ago

I couldn’t disagree more. On my Mac and PC, I write tons of little programs and scripts to make my day easier. It’s great that any and all software runs. But on my phone, I just want it to work reliably every time I pull it out of my pocket. I don’t want to hear from the rent-a-car place that I have to side-load their crappy invasive malware app on my phone if I want to rent a car (or do the same to order food at a hospital, or to use my new printer, or to shop at my grocery store, and on and on). Sideloading will open the floodgates to horrible crappy malware- or spyware-ridden apps that companies will force you to install, without the protections and benefits offered by the App Store. No thanks.

flangola7 4y ago
No it won't or that would already be the case on Android. Your fears are entirely fabricated
- consumer451 4y ago
  I have heard that the DJI control app requires sideloading on Android. That's a huge install base and seems to be a sign of a pretty bad system, no? The system being that an major app provider wants to do something potentially shady, and the sideloading system allows it.
rektide 4y ago
It hasn't been a problem on Android ever. No one expects folks to bypass the Google App Store. More so though, I think it's incredibly malignant a position to demand everyone else be trapped on a Think Apple paradigm forever. You're putting an extreme outside risk with no signs of being a problem ahead of everyone else having basic liberty to use the most important most popular electronic device on the planet (the smartphone) as they wish. Apple should split into two companies if this is the path they want. The iPhone control apple shouldn't be given license to ruin & piss on the Think Different past like this. The small hew & cry of "I dont want to think" or let anyone else think is just the saddest.