Sideloading won't be enabled where I live

All other countries without sideloading mandates

We're as shitty as we're legally allowed to be
- Apple

Shouldnt have exited from the EU ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

brexit went great huh?

Thanks, brexit. yet another win 🙄

Imagine buying a piece of hardware and actually owning it.

“Minimizes diminished App Store revenue”

I am an Apple user and in the end I’m more comfortable with them having access to my data than google.. but man, they don’t even bother to pretend it’s a pro-consumer issue thing anymore.

Been noticing that a lot lately, corporate weasel language is dying as these companies grow more and more emboldened.

another brexit benefit we stay winning /s

You should never sideload. Cranes are not designed to be loaded that way and the crane or the load could move unexpectedly.

Always lift vertically.

Another Brexit Benefit

Fuck Nigel Frog face Farrage, The Haunted Victorian Pencil Jacob Rees-Mogg, Lord David Pig Fucker Cameron, Maybot, Boris I don't care where I stick my Johnson, and all the rest of the Tories who either actively supported this or were to self interested to not rebel as their leaders doubled down on their Brexit folly again and again.

Apple really fucking hates user freedom and choice.

Time to get an Android, I guess.

Enjoy your walled garden, you paid for it.

Brexit effect. Slowly but surely starts to show some results.

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Imagine if steam only enabled refunds for australian customers and no one else, lmao.

All other countries without sideloading mandates

Every 3rd world country that was already jail breaking and sideloading apps anyway:

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Was Brexit really worth it?

Did somebody say "Brexit Dividend"?

So glad that Brexit brought the control back to our own hands!

Praise the EU

This year EU will get sudden spike in tourism and immigration

Common Brexit L

Hits a buzzer

Countries where "lobbying" is popular

I still don't understand why people would want iOS if you plan to do off-brand stuff like sideload non apple appstore applications. You are just torturing yourself just so you can still have an iPhone.

What is side loading?

Just move out of that place and you won't have that problem anymore.

I hear the EU next door is pretty cool.

EU, I belive in you!

lol this is an “article” written by ChatGPT full of fluff and speculation.

Damn you Brexit again

But you have those £300 million per week for the NHS now.

Why is Canada also excluded from side-loading? 😭

Don't cry over it. I live in Europe so I'll get it but the thing is that Apple will most likely force people into some kind of bullshit certificate that you've to buy in order to be able to sideload.

If you read the legal document about side-loading then Apple could be considered in compliance if they just decided to create a “sideloading program” where you can apply and pay for a special certificate with a vetting process and a lot of restrictions (being a company over a certain size etc). Essentially the same as the current Enterprise program but extended to allow 3rd party stores and distribution of App to random users not part of the same organization.

The legislation won't stop them from doing this and it will effetely only be used by large companies that can go through the vetting process and pay the ridiculous amounts of money that Apple will be asking for.

How are they handling this? Would a VPN get you around it or is it based on where the service subscription is based?

5 eyes spy network countries. No surprise there.

Could enabling a VPN spoof apple to think your in a based country?

good to see an alternative-frontends enjoyer.

Honestly it could be that developing and maintaining these region-locked differences in OS might be more expensive than saving every last penny from not allowing piracy (which is the real deal for this fuss).

Big majority of android users don't sideload either, most people are so technically illiterate they don't really grasp the idea of an App Store overall, it's just a place for them the get an Instagram button on a new device

There is absolutely no correlation between profitability and countries forbidding sideloading.

Correlation with successful lobbying efforts on our part? Maybe. ~ Apple 🍏

Time to get a Brentrace, I guess.

Switch to android?

For anyone looking to sideload on their iPhone without jailbreaking or paying for a dev account, look into Trollstore, if your IOS version is compatable, you can sideload unlimited apps thanks to the 2 coretrust bugs.

The way I see it, the majority of Apple users are fine without side loading and won't even notice it's not there. This is typical Apple behavior so people that buy Apple products should know what they're getting into.

Thanks Nigel

Where there is a will, there is a way

think the film Tron made a good while ago was about users having control versus systematic control over the users by the system admins

The Big Five Oh

AppStore won't be enabled? Who needs it anyway, I can do ownloading.

I'm betting countries that do qualify will have a massive uptick in phones sold, but also a massive uptick in phones being smuggled out of the country.

If there is a way then I guarantee it will eventually come to everywhere else. One way or another.

This gonna affect switzerland too or am i just gonna have to wait and see haha?

Sideloading should still be possible through something like the AltStore or 3uTools

Your battery is at 48% and its almost 11am, you may want to charge if you plan on heavy usage

I don't know how the situation works with apple devices, but wouldn't it be possible to import a model from a country with sideloading required?

I know it's more expensive, but it's something I'd do and have been thinking about with a different phone that ain't available in my country.

cries in Android

What does "sideloading apps" even mean?

That’s so messed up! Apple come on don’t be a douche!

Do you have a link to the article you took the screenshot from?

What is that square with an up arrow icon near the bottom left supposed to do? Help you square up for hitting a golf ball or something?

Have you heard of Linux?