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Sideloaded app stores are coming to iOS in the EU (thenextweb.com)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Well Apple has to do something after the Barclay's downgrade.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (4 children)

This will only push Apples stock down. Every big company with market power will move their app off the App Store to stop paying apple a cut and not have to follow their rules (like easy subscription cancelations).

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

Nah, no chance. Android allows side loading and the vast majority of apps are on the Play Store still because the vast majority of users don’t even know what sideloading is…

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Just like they do on android?

It's a ton of work to distribute apps on your own and less technical users will always prefer the app store.

Only the really big guys and the really small guys will offer side loading and they won't pull the apps from the app store in the process.

That being said, it might initially drop apple stock because a lot of people will think the same way you are here.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Just like they do on android?

No. The EU has published a detailed list of soft barriers to side loading that Google must remove.

It's going to get a lot easier to side load apps on Android soon. And there will probably be a bunch of third party stores (I'd expect Steam to be available on Android this year for example - and probably also pre-installed on some phones).

It’s a ton of work to distribute apps on your own

Sure. But developers don't need to do it on their own. They will be able to outsource the work to someone like Steam who is very very good at running an app store (I'd argue they're better at it than Google or Apple).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

No.

We’ve seen with Android and with Steam, it pays more to pay the cut of sales to be on the big store where the people who will buy your product are.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 10 months ago

Yup. And, for the vast majority of users, the experience is going to become shittier and shittier.