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I severely doubt that big corps will force side loading their app in iPhone when the easier experience is the iOS AppStore. Same reason why all those apps you m
by ragestorm 3y ago
I severely doubt that big corps will force side loading their app in iPhone when the easier experience is the iOS AppStore. Same reason why all those apps you mentioned are in the android store and not just apk downloads from their site.
- maratc 3y agoWe don't know how this will play out, and probably instead of sideloading the new stores will be downloaded from the app store. So say you want WhatsApp on your phone. Today: AppStore - get WhatsApp. Tomorrow: AppStore - get Facebook store - start Facebook store - get WhatsApp. The power Facebook (also, Microsoft and Google) have over the users of their apps may be so great that they could pull it. Small companies? No chance in hell. So actually, this move might put Apple (and Apple users) into a weaker situation while empowering FB/MS/GOOG and having no effect whatsoever on small app developers.
- Moldoteck 3y agoBut apple can ban other stores in it's store. They can say 'we made platform open to sideloading, you can even sideload other stores' in combo with several warnings that sideloading is dangerous when a user attempts to do it. This can guarantee that apps will stay inside appstore bc it will be too hard for users otherwise