Does iOS Have Sideloading Yet? No

Re:Does iOS Have Sideloading Yet? No by pzo on Friday February 28, 2025 @03:48AM (#43203311)

Laptop and computers still is used as dominant for writing software including for mobile - you know software that could be infected. Still no collapse. Smartphones were not main device 10 years ago and people did bank transfers on laptop and world didn't collapse 10 years ago

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Re:Does iOS Have Sideloading Yet? No by throwaway290 on Friday February 28, 2025 @03:59AM (#43203390)

> Laptop and computers still is used as dominant for writing software including for mobile

Yes and infected Xcode and various SDKs you get on your laptop are actually the biggest threat to iOS security (other than just literally malicious devs). Devs torrenting an xcode and then infecting their users is a thing.

> Smartphones were not main device 10 years ago and people did bank transfers on laptop and world didn't collapse 10 years ago

See blackhats in infancy part...

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Re:Does iOS Have Sideloading Yet? No by aja12 on Saturday March 01, 2025 @10:48PM (#43227063)

> Yes and infected Xcode and various SDKs you get on your laptop are actually the biggest threat to iOS security (other than just literally malicious devs). Devs torrenting an xcode and then infecting their users is a thing.

Would it happen as often if the tooling was free?

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Re:Does iOS Have Sideloading Yet? No by throwaway290 on Monday March 03, 2025 @02:44PM (#43245836)

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Xcode is free

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Re:Does iOS Have Sideloading Yet? No by Dylan16807 on Wednesday March 05, 2025 @04:03AM (#43264487)

So why are you talking about people torrenting it? Am I missing something?

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