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Re:App store bill sails out of Senate Judiciary Committee by anonymouse008 on Thursday February 03, 2022 @03:58PM (#30198735)
I purchased my goods with the express contract that the AppStore will be the only way a developer gets access to Apple's APIs, Libraries, and instruction sets for iPhone.

That's the thesis for a treatise I could write. This breaks the contract I had with them upon purchase.

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Re:App store bill sails out of Senate Judiciary Committee by andrewjl on Thursday February 03, 2022 @04:23PM (#30199100)
> I purchased my goods with the express contract that the AppStore will be the only way a developer gets access to Apple's APIs, Libraries, and instruction sets for iPhone.

Any software license you may have purchased is a non-exclusive one. Apple can re-license their own software however they wish.

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Re:App store bill sails out of Senate Judiciary Committee by idle_zealot on Thursday February 03, 2022 @04:08PM (#30198879)
That’s not true though. Users can already sign and sideload apps from a Mac. It’s just that doing so imposes annoyances (have to manually update apps, and resign every week). Allowing proper sideloading would only eliminate annoyances associated with current capabilities.
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