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Apple plans to charge fees for sideloading (9to5mac.com)

submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Who would've thought? This isn’t going to fly with the EU.

Article 5.3 of the Digital Markets Act (DMA): "The gatekeeper shall not prevent business users from offering the same products or services to end users through third-party online intermediation services or through their own direct online sales channel at prices or conditions that are different from those offered through the online intermediation services of the gatekeeper."

Friendly reminder that you can sideload apps without jailbreaking or paying for a dev account using TrollStore, which utilises core trust bugs to bypass/spoof some app validation keys, on a iPhone XR or newer on iOS 14.0 up to 16.6.1. (ANY version for iPhone X and older)

Install guide: Trollstore

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Exactly my thoughts. "Let's jailbreak this, bypass that, circumvent that one thing..." Why do you subject yourself to this with a device you paid hundreds of dollars for?

As much as I'd like to have an iPhone, I'd rather not.

As an aside, it's the same thing with game consoles. Is the whole "you must be connected to the internet" thing still happening? That's what has been preventing me from getting a new xbox, for example.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I remember way back when I had my iPod Touch 4 (haven't touched Apple since then) that I (intentionally) jailbroke it simply by tapping a button on a website in Safari. It was an exploit that used a bug in iOS's PDF software, I believe.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

I remember that technique as well. I thought it was neat.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Steam Deck is pretty awesome in the offline gaming regard, if that's what you might be looking for.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Uh, it's actually quite the opposite, most games you need to at least open them one time while connected to the internet for offline to work.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itBscLjRCPc

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

But that is not the fault of Steam Deck, which was discussed.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

I'd argue that there are a lot of offline mode frustrations with Steam but none of them are Steam's fault, they are all due to individual games online requirements or DRM implementations.