Personally, its about pushing back on the ever increasing tide of not owning your own device, and using it as you see fit.
I just can't understand why so many are against a feature that they don't have to use.
Again nobody has managed to challenge my point that if you want side loading there is another platform you can use. Why does every platform needs to be so open? You wanna tell me there are NO benefits from a closed platform?
I can still side load using my Dev Account so I want a specific app - I’ll build it and have it. Anyone can side load with a dev account so the entire point as I keep coming back is because of the revenue to developers not freedoms.
I don't want another platform. I like Apple's hardware. I think it's really well made and would like to purchase it instead of Samsung phones.
That's all the justification necessary.
> You wanna tell me there are NO benefits from a closed platform?
I wanna tell you that none of these benefits matter if they come at the cost of computer freedom.
Adding sideloading reduces security of a device even if you personally never touch it. There'll be more attack vectors, scams etc that would only be possible with sideloading.
If Apple stays the same as it is today, there is nobody making you buy an Apple device.
Don’t get me wrong, I’d like to be able to sideload apps, and I think more competition in the App Store space would be beneficial for consumers. But a lot of the “freedom” type advocates act as if someone held a gun to their head and forced them to use an Apple device for the remainder of their life, and now they can’t sideload apps. If that’s an important feature to someone, there’s a platform that allows that.