Re:iOS 17 app sideloading might only be available in Europe
by userbinator on Sunday April 23, 2023 @02:51AM
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What flip phones? They were all locked down on the carrier side.
You seem to have missed the, admittedly brief, period where Java games on phones were extremely commonplace.
Re:iOS 17 app sideloading might only be available in Europe
by simondotau on Sunday April 23, 2023 @07:53AM
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If you think they were "extremely commonplace", you were living in a mid-2000s tech bubble. At best they were kinda commonplace among a narrow set of people who gave a shit, knew it was possible, happened to have devices which supported these games, happened to have a revision of the device which wasn't locked down by the carrier, and who had the time and patience to tinker with such unusable junk.
If more than 1 percent of Java-capable handsets ever had third party software downloaded onto them post-purchase, I'd eat my hat.
I wonder if even 1 percent of iPhones manage to get used without ever having at least one app installed from the App Store.
Re:iOS 17 app sideloading might only be available in Europe
by userbinator on Sunday April 23, 2023 @08:03PM
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happened to have a revision of the device which wasn't locked down by the carrier
In many countries, including China, all phones are unlocked by default.
Re:iOS 17 app sideloading might only be available in Europe
by simondotau on Sunday April 23, 2023 @08:46PM
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Just because a phone is "unlocked" doesn't mean it's feature complete, or there's any mechanism to use the features which haven't been blocked by a carrier.
What flip phones? They were all locked down on the carrier side.
You're still not installing arbitrary applications on game consoles even now that they're running x86.
Stop speaking like that please.