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

submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 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] 0 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

I wanted a fast laptop without a fan and with a big haptic feedback touchpad. Happy to hear about non-Apple options for this.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

These are fascinating requirements. Mind explaining?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Fast, quiet, big touch pad. What'd fascinating or out of the world here? These are just kind of things most people want, not everyone wants to manually update their kernel or whatever.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I think Apple trademarked having a big touchpad. And possibly also one that works.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

I've got an Asus ZenBook (specifically this one that came out last year). It does have a fan, but it's pretty quiet. I barely notice it most of the time. It's pretty fast, too. Don't know how large of a touchpad you want, though.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Doesn't look bad, but I'm guessing it doesn't have a haptic touchpad? (Clicking is equally easy anywhere on the touchpad, because there isn't actually a click, the click is simulated by a vibrator.)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

No, there's no haptic touchpad. TBH, I didn't even know that was a thing.