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.
Ok, but what about game consoles? I don’t like how Nintendo is abusing their dominant position in the software distribution for the Switch.
- Game consoles don’t have a duopoly
- You gotta start somewhere
Hopefully the court was clever enought to specify that the side loading must not be more difficult than installing via the store. Apple will for sure make it as complicated and user hostile as possible so they fulfill the ruling without having any practical impact.
Technically, sideloading is possible already, but you need a developer account, you’re limited to 3 sideloaded apps at a time, and you have to renew them every week.
So the more difficult way already exists.
There are ways without the dev account (faked certificate), but if you use a VPN, or update your Os, apple will blacklist your device. And you also need to have some very specific DNS settings blocking a bunch of apple domains. @[email protected] is an expert.
Thanks, good to know.
Here’s a link to the Guide: https://is.gd/sideloading
I focus on free methods hence a bunch of things one needs to read through first like revokes in order to avoid them. Even if you go with the paid route, there are services that allow you to gain a certificate for much less as they distribute the price of one developer account to multiple users which is in the form of a private cert. The tutorial is supposed to guide you through the usage of enterprise certificates instead as it allows to sideload for free.
I do moderate this community for announcements & discussions: [email protected]
Brazil is really doing something together with the EU. Maybe the two should cooperate more.
Nice!
I wonder if they will implement the same malicious compliance as they did in the EU with the junk core technology fees and notarization requirements.
They don’t even have to do that anymore. They can just whisper in trump’s ear… “go on… tariff them, kek”.
I’ve beeen an Apple user long enough to remember when “sideloading” was called “installing software.”
Enshittification is subtle and started long before we realized. Weird nerds who wanted power over skill corrupted the internet back in the late 90s.
I don’t want to sideload anything on my iPhone.
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.
