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

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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] 31 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I can't say I am surprised. Apples view is that since they made the device and provided the software they are entitled to a cut of anything that happens on it, because that software makes use of something Apple created.

I don't agree and think it is a crazy view. But that sort of corporate mindset is one of the reasons I have never been big on Apple products.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Apples view

So, these companies will throw whatever shit at a wall to see what sticks.

Their "view" is constantly probing how low people's standards are so they can do the least while charging the most.

It's called "maximizing profit."

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

I think it is not open source so they feel like they control everything about that. The EU seems like it disagrees with that.