iOS 17 app sideloading might only be available in Europe

Re:iOS 17 app sideloading might only be available in Europe by neximo64 on Sunday April 23, 2023 @03:28AM (#35674137)

The issue about distribution is never the technical aspect you are describing, it's about getting people to visit that website/app store in the first place. If it were that aspect aspect companies like T-Mobile, Equinix, Vodafone, Orange would dominate it. Even after the the app store is available in Europe, these companies have no chance of success.

That is what it looks like will be very undesirable because it will be fragmented and competing with an all-world app store that is bundled with iOS. If you were a developer you would prefer 1000 sales at 30% cut, vs 5 sales with a 0% (supposedly still 30% if the chatter is right on Apple charging for sideloading) cut.

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Re:iOS 17 app sideloading might only be available in Europe by red_trumpet on Sunday April 23, 2023 @04:49AM (#35674557)

How would "charging for sideloading" work? If I publish an app on my website, I wouldn't have a contract with apple, right? Would they charge the user?

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Re:iOS 17 app sideloading might only be available in Europe by Vespasian on Sunday April 23, 2023 @05:10AM (#35674642)

They could try some shenanigans like requiring "certification" to side load anything and that would come with a contract.

It would be struck down by the courts and version 2 of this regulation but for a few years it would be there.

I'm hoping apple doesn't do that but at this point I think they'll try anything they can to protect their golden goose (aka app store) even from minor competition.

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Re:iOS 17 app sideloading might only be available in Europe by jrockway on Sunday April 23, 2023 @03:33PM (#35679696)

I'm not sure if the App Store is the amazing marketing tool that it's sold as. There are millions of apps, nobody is going to find yours.

The biggest problem with Apple's revenue model is that they want the 30% for people that aren't really benefiting from the App Store. Spotify built their brand without Apple, and if you want their app, you just click the link they email you.

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Re:iOS 17 app sideloading might only be available in Europe by dwaite on Monday April 24, 2023 @05:56AM (#35685550)

Spotify both acquires new customers because of their iPhone app and directly _through_ their app via in-app purchases. That is the value that Apple intended to charge them for, and Spotify has continued to begrudgingly think that value is worth the headaches.

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Re:iOS 17 app sideloading might only be available in Europe by anticensor on Monday April 24, 2023 @10:39AM (#35688206)

Depends on the friction imposed by the way 30% cut is implemented.

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