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MacPaw's Setapp will become one of the first iOS third-party app stores in the EU
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this post was submitted on 01 Mar 2024
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I'm more interested in knowing concretely if I will be able to compile any iOS app from GitHub and sideload it without a developer account having it only last for a week and having to resign. But nobody seems to be interesting in answering the hard questions... or this is all bullshit like I predicted.
100% you will never be able to sideload stuff without an Apple developer account for other than very short term testing.
And if you want to load anyone else’s app, a review of the app by Apple will be required before it’s digitally signed.
Neither of which bother me.
That's what I've been saying from the start and people kept bashing me saying if they didn't do it that way it would be against the EU laws. From my perspective simply extending the enterprise program to 2rd party stores is just enough to comply with said laws.
There are a few details that aren't that clear right now, like how will Apple conduct notarization if an app is from a 3rd party store? Will developers still have to upload their apps to Apple? This kind of kills the spirit of 3rd parties... who's going to pay the cost? Or... will they just do it like in macOS and simply checksum every application from the 3rd party stores and if one of found to contain malware kill it via signature backlisting and/or warn the 3rd party store and potentially do the same to the store if it happens more times with their apps?
It should. There's no reason to carry a computer in your pocket that is hostage of some company to run software?
At the moment it doesn’t look like we will be able to do that. And I am very sad about that…
As far as I understand, this isn’t changed.
Apple didn’t really open control of iOS as all apps still have be approved by them through notarization, which they said will be done by a person and not automated.
You can’t run unsigned apps on iOS like you can on macOS.
So essentially the legislation is useless as usual, just like I predicted.