The Federal Regional Court of the 1st Region (TRF-1) has overturned a trial ruling and reinstated an injunction imposed by the Administrative Council for Economic Defense (Cade) on Apple, as part of an investigation into alleged abuse of dominant position in the app distribution market for iOS devices. According to the ruling, the company will have 90 days to implement the changes mandated by the antitrust authority.
I don’t want to sideload anything on my iPhone.
Well you don’t have to, but it’s always good to have options
Obviously. Better to own an android to sideload apps. More freedom there.
That’s the whole point, to force iPhone to also have freedom.
Android is becoming less free every year; the more Apple gets away with, the closer Android/Google will drift towards it.
“iPhone vs Android” is the wrong battle
It’s “Us & Gov. vs Apple & Google & Gov”
I remember jailbreaking used to be a thing on iPhone then Apple slowly integrated the jailbreak features into iPhone. Then slowly jailbreaking died, I mean not literally dead but people are now unfamiliar with that thing.
What’s the problem? Should those features only be available to people who know about jailbreaking? It seems like the pressure caused Apple to actually spend some money to add useful features that people obviously wanted. What’s the bad thing here?
Didn’t jailbreaking pretty much die because apple made it really hard?
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Freedom comes with a cost. I’m sure Apple will find a way to earn big bucks from this sideloading of app thing.
This is how brain-broken capitalism has made people… The concept of an effective government actually regulating a company and forcing them to spend more money to do the thing they should be doing is just completely foreign to you.
I want to sideload things on my iPhone. Hopefully we’ll both be able to do what we want.
then don’t.
it’s not something your being forced to do. it’s the lifting of an unnecessary restriction that in turn gives you more power on your device.
iOS is so closed source I don’t think Apple is gonna give us that freedom!!
Windows and Mac OS are both closed source but both allow apps outside an app store. No issue with the code base there.
Webkit.
If they don’t then they might lose the Brazilian market and who knows what comes after. It’s less about what Apple wants to do and more about what they might be forced to do.
They’ll comply for sure but at what cost, that’s the thing to watch.
It costs them nothing. Sideloading on iOS is already a thing, they spend more restricting the hell out of it than just letting you do it
You’re right, at what cost…?