OMG! See this is exactly what Apple said works happen if they were forced to slow side loading. I hope you are all happy!
“Checks notes”: Side loading has not been enabled yet…
… oh
I know I’m earning this downvoted spam, but…
This requires you to use enterprise-oriented features that blast you with warnings telling you not to do it. After you ignore those warnings they can install anything they want on your device.
This is basically sideloading for corporations.
And it is exactly an example of what will happen (and be quite common) if regular sideloading and alternative app stores with no Apple validation are forced on us.
It’s a problem on Android, already. Banking apps disable themselves if your device is rooted due to malicious Trojans that exploit that feature to gain easy access to your data.
I’m sure they’ll make sideloading a miserable enough experience for all involved (but not miserable enough to make it obvious that it’s in bad faith and incur the wrath of the EU) that both users and devs will just opt not to do it
I’m sorry for the Apple users, but Apple devices are so restricted, why would you even want to use one?
It all comes down to what you use the device for. I know the apple hate is strong but there’s not a whole lot of different use cases going in to either one other than the ecosystems. Also most android fanatics haven’t even used an iPhone to comment on anything. They do anyway though.
I have used an iPhone for 2 years and getting an Android 6 months ago was a breath of fresh air. I could install any app I wanted, including custom launchers, sms, TTS, etc. I didn’t have to sign into a MAGMA account to use the device. I had a headphone jack. I could add a network speed tracked in the status bar. I could actually implement DNS adblocking and it worked. I could install Firefox extensions - a huge thing that’s 36% of the reason I’m not going back to iPhone.
As a developer: superior hardware, years ahead of Android in terms of performance. Android is way too limited in what you can do with it as a developer.
Sorry, what? Are wee talking about different operating systems? Apple is way more hostile to developers, as I described in my other comment.
Practically you simply can do a lot more on iOS, especially if you are doing things that require a lot of performance. The CPU is much, much faster, you have access to more RAM, the GPUs are more advanced. There is actually a GPU computer API that works on all phones instead of the mess on Android where there simply isn’t anything that is universally supported.
APIs are also a lot more powerful on iOS. Anything related to media, for example. You have so much more control and advanced APIs for things like the camera, dealing with video data, etc. There simply is no comparison. Android is a toy OS compared to iOS.
Google sells more of my data than Apple
Because they are so restricted ;-) since i moved my whole family onto it, i cut support time by 90%.
This is an actual interesting article that they just ruined with SEO spam links to ‘the best <whatever>’ all over it. Sigh.
do you need some help setting up ad blockers?
It’s literally in the text of the article. I’m using both ublock origin and a pihole here.
huh, i can’t see it
I think they mean the links to other articles:
One of the reasons many people pick one of the best iPhones over their Android counterparts is due to security.
Which, well, I dunno how that’s so bad. It’s just linking to other articles on the same site 🤷
this is why i took all banking apps off my phone. the websites work fine anyway.
