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Hand on heart, even if the option to side load apps goes worldwide, I’m likely gonna stick with the App Store versions. I get daily spam emails and phone calls, I dont need another thing posing even more of a security risk and exposing my data to even more companies — thanks.
It doesn’t matter, it still impacts the security of your device.
As things stand now, iOS wholly and completely rejects any apps that aren’t signed by Apple.
In the future, it won’t. It becomes far easier for someone to get a malicious app on your phone.
What do you mean by “iOS wholly and completely rejects any apps that aren’t signed by Apple”? I have sideloaded for ~10 years and still do so to this day. My apps work perfectly fine and it’s been years since I’ve had any issues with licenses getting revoked etc.
Precisely, I'd do the same. Once something like F-Droid is given the opportunity to flourish in the Apple ecosystem I'll choose to use that too, otherwise I'll stick with the more vetted option. We're all probably power users and it's highly likely that Apple will implement more stringent checks before allowing sideloading on a certain device to protect casual users.
I’ve sideloaded for ages and never got any spam emails or phone calls because of it. I do of course get some spam, I’m sure most people do, but to me that’s just a normal part of being active online. Never in my life got a spam call because my number isn’t publicly available.
And by the way, there are no App Store versions of emulators or cracked apps such as YouTube, which is the main reason I sideload. I don’t use my emulator that much, but I use my cracked YouTube app every single day because it has no ads.