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Re:U.S. sues Apple, accusing it of maintaining an iPhone mon... by idle_zealot on Friday March 22, 2024 @01:56AM (#39787797)
The great thing about allowing sideloading is that it enables the community to build 3rd party apps for accessing services like Facebook, even though doing so violates the service's ToS. You can't put a lightweight and tracking-resistant FB client in the App Store.
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Re:U.S. sues Apple, accusing it of maintaining an iPhone mon... by thirdsun on Friday March 22, 2024 @04:32AM (#39788524)
I don't that's a problem of distribution but rather getting the data in the first place. Why wouldn't Facebook prevent those services from accessing the data? Ask the developer of Apollo, the Reddit client, how well relying on a third-party works.
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Re:U.S. sues Apple, accusing it of maintaining an iPhone mon... by tsimionescu on Friday March 22, 2024 @10:39AM (#39791193)
Wasn't Apollo killed exactly by the fact that it would no longer be allowed on app stores?
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