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Apple plans to charge fees for sideloading (9to5mac.com)
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Who would've thought? This isn’t going to fly with the EU.

Article 5.3 of the Digital Markets Act (DMA): "The gatekeeper shall not prevent business users from offering the same products or services to end users through third-party online intermediation services or through their own direct online sales channel at prices or conditions that are different from those offered through the online intermediation services of the gatekeeper."

Friendly reminder that you can sideload apps without jailbreaking or paying for a dev account using TrollStore, which utilises core trust bugs to bypass/spoof some app validation keys, on a iPhone XR or newer on iOS 14.0 up to 16.6.1. (ANY version for iPhone X and older)

Install guide: Trollstore

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[–] JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 0 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Well they would have to allow unsigned code to run under the DMA, wouldn't they?

[–] codemichael@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I don't know the details of the DMA, it's definitely possible to provide code-signing to developers that does not go through the app store.

[–] hamsterkill@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 9 months ago

An example of this in practice is Firefox addons. You need to get your extension signed for people to install it, but you can distribute it however. Mozilla of course doesn't charge for signing though. It's just to give them the ability to ban an extension found to be malicious.

[–] anlumo@lemmy.world 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

No, macOS allows sideloading apps that are still signed by Apple.

[–] QuarterSwede@lemmy.world 0 points 9 months ago

This is most likely how they’re planning on allowing it. Gatekeeper is the macOS tech they use to keep unsigned code from running yet can be from anywhere on the web.