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Re:iOS 17 will reportedly set the stage for sideloading apps... by kyriakos on Monday April 17, 2023 @12:39PM (#35603203)
Apple (and Google) blocks all sorts of apps from their stores that even though legal in nature are not allowed for some arbitrary reason that helps their bottomline. E.g. things like gambling, crypto, adult etc are all blocked. On Android you have the choice to side load them on iOS you can't. For this reason alone allowing sideloading will be a generally good thing.

For the average user there will be zero impact and for the power users who wants to still to Apple's guidelines no one is forcing them to install anything they don't want to. If its any similar to Android it will take quite a few clicks to allow the installation which deters the average user from installing unwanted stuff.

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Re:iOS 17 will reportedly set the stage for sideloading apps... by rched on Monday April 17, 2023 @12:46PM (#35603303)
How does blocking gambling, crypto, and adult content help their bottom line? Seems to me like these would be a lucrative source of income if they allowed them on the store.

The risk to the average user is that an app they want is removed from the App Store and only available via sideloaidng.

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Re:iOS 17 will reportedly set the stage for sideloading apps... by kyriakos on Monday April 17, 2023 @01:08PM (#35603584)
Adult and Gambling have different compliance requirements with banks and payment processors, some outright don't allow dealing with these types of content/marketplaces (have a look at Stripe's T&C as an example). Apple and Google would rather not get into these markets than dealing with the legal complexities, this is the reason they are blocked. If they were doing it for the good of the users they would have just blocked them for underage users.
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Re:iOS 17 will reportedly set the stage for sideloading apps... by rched on Monday April 17, 2023 @02:49PM (#35604842)
> Apple and Google would rather not get into these markets than dealing with the legal complexities, this is the reason they are blocked

I find this claim pretty suspect. What are you basing this on? I'm sure the extra income would be vastly more than the cost of dealing with legal complexities.

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Re:iOS 17 will reportedly set the stage for sideloading apps... by kyriakos on Monday April 17, 2023 @03:41PM (#35605524)
On the fact that they don't allow them in the first place.
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