if or when side loading comes to iPhone I bet we will see a new Cydia store
this post was submitted on 19 Nov 2023
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Why sideload? It’s safer with apple gate keeping all the nasty shit and malpractices.
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.
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.
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Maybe apple won't allow using it's icloud backups in sideloaded apps. Like if you play games maybe your progess would be saved to icloud and apple may not allow that to be used in sideloaded apps.
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With our phones being used for identity purposes and containing a good amount of very personal data, the idea of downloading third-party apps that haven't even been reviewed by Apple will be a turn-off for many.
Whether this concern is technically justified or not, it will be there.
I also think of the "nutrition" label that developers have to fill in the App Store. If you grab apps from their own environments, will they return to tracking everything they can without disclosure?
But no one will be forced to download any 3rd party app. App Store is not going anywhere, most people will continue using their phone just like they did before.
I don’t want side loading on my iPhone. If I wanted that I would just use android. Why the insistence on making iOS and android identical?