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Apple plans to charge fees for sideloading (9to5mac.com)
submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by [email protected] to c/technology
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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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[–] thehatfox 10 points 10 months ago (2 children)

The only way it could work out badly for smaller software developers is if companies like Apple decide to recover their losses by charging heavily for development tools and resources.

If they can’t have walls around app distribution they might try and put them around app development instead.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 10 months ago (1 children)

They've been doing that since the beginning. You need a "developer license" in order to publish an app. Back in the day it was like $50 a year I think, but I haven't done ios dev in about a decade so I don't know if that's changed.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

A developer account is $100/year right now

[–] 9point6 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

App developers add value to their platform, any wall erected there would be torn down in moments. It would be biting the hand that feeds

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

It's North Korea in the Apple world.