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Re:Apple Accidentally Unpatches Vulnerability, Leading to Ne... by readams on Wednesday August 21, 2019 @09:23AM (#20756894)
The iOS feature set is intended to protect Apple's business model and revenue streams by forcing you to do things in Apple's jail. Getting a developer account is obviously an absurd and impractical approach to distribute software and proposing this is frankly ridiculous. It's not free, requires you own a Mac, and is way beyond the technical abilities of most users.
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Re:Apple Accidentally Unpatches Vulnerability, Leading to Ne... by Wowfunhappy on Wednesday August 21, 2019 @09:31AM (#20756948)
> requires you own a Mac

I mostly agree with you, but you don't necessarily need a Mac in order to use your developer account for sideloading—you can also use Cydia Impactor which is available for Windows/Linux.

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