Some seemingly innocuous APIs are misused to track users, Apple says.

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    1 year ago

    If apple allowed sideloading apps, I’d get an iPhone. I hate everything about Google. I try my best not to use the play store. I rely mostly on F-droid, obtainium and aurora store.

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      1 year ago

      They do, it’s just that they limit it very severely. Right now, there’s a cap of three apps per account. What I usually do is have multiple apple accounts as “dev accounts” and use them to side load my apps onto my phone. There’s no cap on how many you can put on a single phone. The real catch to this method is that you need to resign your apps every seven days. I find it to not be too much of a hassle to plug in my phone to my computer and press a button, but I know that some people get frustrated by having to do something to keep their apps on their phone.

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        1 year ago

        Oh I know that method. It’s just stupid and annoying. I actually paid for the YouTube++ app and used it that way. Just got tired of resigning. Also, jailbreaking was amazing on iOS.

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      1 year ago

      iOS 17 will have to allow some form of official sideloading (at least in the EU) by law, so you might just be in luck