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Apple is bringing sideloading and alternate app stores to the iPhone (www.theverge.com)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Sideloading is explicitly about enabling the user to install multimedia and apps that are not approved by the manufacturer or OS vendor, so this is probably illegal (depends on how the law's been written) and I expect Apple to be taken to court over it in the very near future.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

How I hope you are right