2 posts tagged ‘Sideloading’

• The App Store Era Must End

  mjtsai, Nov 22, 2024

  Jason Snell (tweet, Macworld, podcast): To a kid growing up in the 1980s, the idea that the maker of your computer would actively stop you from using software it didn’t approve of would have seemed beyond the pale. It certainly would’ve been a deal-breaker. And yet so many of today’s computing devices are locked down—for […]

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• Apple’s Five App Stores

  mjtsai, Jan 10, 2024

  Manish Singh and Natasha Lomas (via Slashdot): The iPhone-maker has updated the language pertaining to its risk factors in the fiscal year 2023 Form 10-K filing (PDF), with the revised text presenting a shift from the company’s previous position, indicating a more definitive stance on potential modifications to the App Store policies.Apple said that future […]

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