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Apple plans to charge fees for sideloading (9to5mac.com)

submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Who would've thought? This isn’t going to fly with the EU.

Article 5.3 of the Digital Markets Act (DMA): "The gatekeeper shall not prevent business users from offering the same products or services to end users through third-party online intermediation services or through their own direct online sales channel at prices or conditions that are different from those offered through the online intermediation services of the gatekeeper."

Friendly reminder that you can sideload apps without jailbreaking or paying for a dev account using TrollStore, which utilises core trust bugs to bypass/spoof some app validation keys, on a iPhone XR or newer on iOS 14.0 up to 16.6.1. (ANY version for iPhone X and older)

Install guide: Trollstore

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

I wanted a fast laptop without a fan and with a big haptic feedback touchpad. Happy to hear about non-Apple options for this.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Think you might have confused iOS and MacOS

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (2 children)

MacOS is even worse than iOS. Have to use it for work. And while the hardware is the best I've ever used, the software is complete garbage.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

Desktop OSes today range from acceptable to abysmal.

I put the user-focused Linux distributions at acceptable now that Flatpack is resolving a long-lasting issue with desktop Linux.
The built in advertising and privacy invasion makes Windows 11 abysmal, though it seems they’ve finally found their rhythm on the UI language front
macOS these days is firmly in mediocre territory. Window management hasn’t kept up with developments in other platforms and the OS feels dumb now. We had a very good OS in the Snow Leopard days, but that Apple doesn’t exist anymore.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Oh yeah, I completely concur. I don't get the ux argument either, I always find it to be incredibly slow and frustrating to use whenever I have to

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

These are fascinating requirements. Mind explaining?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Fast, quiet, big touch pad. What'd fascinating or out of the world here? These are just kind of things most people want, not everyone wants to manually update their kernel or whatever.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

I've got an Asus ZenBook (specifically this one that came out last year). It does have a fan, but it's pretty quiet. I barely notice it most of the time. It's pretty fast, too. Don't know how large of a touchpad you want, though.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Doesn't look bad, but I'm guessing it doesn't have a haptic touchpad? (Clicking is equally easy anywhere on the touchpad, because there isn't actually a click, the click is simulated by a vibrator.)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

No, there's no haptic touchpad. TBH, I didn't even know that was a thing.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I think Apple trademarked having a big touchpad. And possibly also one that works.