aPirate@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish · 9 months agoLaLiga "Talks to Google" About Deleting Piracy Apps From a Million Phones * TorrentFreaktorrentfreak.comexternal-linkmessage-square66fedilinkarrow-up1154arrow-down12 cross-posted to: hackernews@derp.foo
arrow-up1152arrow-down1external-linkLaLiga "Talks to Google" About Deleting Piracy Apps From a Million Phones * TorrentFreaktorrentfreak.comaPirate@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish · 9 months agomessage-square66fedilink cross-posted to: hackernews@derp.foo
minus-squareDoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up18arrow-down1·9 months agoAs soon as google starts removing sideloaded apps forcefully without play protect, will be the time when Apples market share increases. Apk sideloading freedom is the only major difference left between Android and iOS
minus-squareWarmApplePieShrek@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7arrow-down1·9 months agoYou realize that on Apple you can never have these apps at all?
minus-squareDoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·9 months agoIf google removes them retroactively from your device or blocks them from being used what’s the difference?
minus-squareWarmApplePieShrek@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down1·9 months agoyou can hide from google and install it anyway. You can’t hide from apple. They control 100% of your device
minus-squaresardon@infosec.publinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·9 months agoAltStore. I have a torrent client and ad-free native YouTube client uYouPlus on my iPhone sideloaded. Running the latest version of iOS. No problems.
minus-squareDoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·9 months agoDev account right? Normally you can only do 3 apps for free
minus-squaresardon@infosec.publinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·9 months ago3 for free, that’s right. I only have 3 installed so no dev account necessary.
minus-squareRender@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·9 months agoWon’t Apple be forced to allow sideloading apps in the future?
minus-squareRender@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·9 months agoOh wow…wish the same could happen in the US.
As soon as google starts removing sideloaded apps forcefully without play protect, will be the time when Apples market share increases.
Apk sideloading freedom is the only major difference left between Android and iOS
You realize that on Apple you can never have these apps at all?
If google removes them retroactively from your device or blocks them from being used what’s the difference?
you can hide from google and install it anyway. You can’t hide from apple. They control 100% of your device
AltStore. I have a torrent client and ad-free native YouTube client uYouPlus on my iPhone sideloaded. Running the latest version of iOS. No problems.
Dev account right? Normally you can only do 3 apps for free
3 for free, that’s right. I only have 3 installed so no dev account necessary.
Won’t Apple be forced to allow sideloading apps in the future?
Europe only
Oh wow…wish the same could happen in the US.