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Re:Apple forced to allow sideloading and 3rd-party app store... by olliej on Friday March 25, 2022 @05:17PM (#30807134)
If not the stores themselves, then presumably the apps will have to pay.

I’d also hope that the store are required to enforce the same security protections as the main App Store.

I don’t want buying an app to now come with the risk of uncancellable subscriptions, gross invasion of privacy, malware, etc

Re:Apple forced to allow sideloading and 3rd-party app store... by Apocryphon on Friday March 25, 2022 @05:51PM (#30807367)
Presumably, they could just treat iOS like macOS, where there already is a notarization system that covers apps distributed outside of the Mac App store.

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/security/notarizin...

Also, people forget that iOS itself has many security protections built into the platform itself that go beyond App Store review.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30199125

Re:Apple forced to allow sideloading and 3rd-party app store... by metadat on Friday March 25, 2022 @06:23PM (#30807575)