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Apple plans to charge fees for sideloading

3 years ago by Jvrava9 to c/technology

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Apple will soon announce policy changes to conform to the Digital Markets Act in Europe, with an impending implementation deadline...

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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thehatfox 16 points 3 years ago

I’m not sure how this would work in practice. Developers distributing apps independently to be sideloaded wouldn’t be submitting them to Apple to review, and sideloaded code may not even have an identifiable developer to charge.

I suppose Apple could implement some sort of rigid signing system, but I think the EU would see that as just another abuse of power.

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codemichael 9 points 3 years ago

As far as I know iPhones have never allowed unsigned code to run.

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anlumo 8 points 3 years ago

Yeah, the first operation of every jailbreak was to disable this protection.

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JackGreenEarth 2 points 3 years ago

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

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codemichael 5 points 3 years ago

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.

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anlumo 2 points 3 years ago

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

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