• Nogami@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    Anyone who didn’t see this coming? It was pretty obvious they’ll never ever allow unlimited side loading.

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      9 months ago

      Well the new system will be way worse than current sideloading (which just requires a reinstall once a year)

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        9 months ago

        Once a year if you have a paid developer account, which is $100/year. It’s otherwise every 7 days and capped at 3 simultaneous apps*. And in either case you need a Mac or Windows machine available as well. I suspect it’ll be an improvement for anyone without a paid developer account.

        * - At least, according to https://sideloadly.io/ - I haven’t touched sideloading for a few years (with AltStore + AltServer).

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          9 months ago

          You’re assuming you won’t need a dev account for this new system? Or is that confirmed somewhere

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            9 months ago

            It’s an educated inference - I don’t believe that requiring a paid dev account to sideload would satisfy the EU, and I don’t think a system that requires a paid dev account would be meaningfully different from the current state of things.

            But then again, I will be surprised if the EU allows Apple to charge a commission on fees related to apps distributed outside their store, and they’re doing that anyway, so who knows.

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              9 months ago

              Not to sideload, to develop an app. Right now you can develop an app and allow it to 100(I think) people to sideload it for a year

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                9 months ago

                Are you talking about them installing it via Testflight?

                Regardless, I would not expect the $100 annual fee for developers to go away

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                  9 months ago

                  I mean; add their UDID to your account > build app > distribute over the internet for them to sideload