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Re:iOS 17 app sideloading might only be available in Europe by simondotau on Sunday April 23, 2023 @07:53AM (#35675459)
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.

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Re:iOS 17 app sideloading might only be available in Europe by userbinator on Sunday April 23, 2023 @08:03PM (#35682053)
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.

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Re:iOS 17 app sideloading might only be available in Europe by simondotau on Sunday April 23, 2023 @08:46PM (#35682360)
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.
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