[cuddlybacon]

I really hope that if Apple is ever forced to open up their devices, that it takes the form of allowing other app stores and not allowing side-loading.

If side loading is allowed the amount of tech support I'll have to provide my family will skyrocket.

[arepublicadoceu]

> I really hope that if Apple is ever forced to open up their devices, that it takes the form of allowing other app stores and not allowing side-loading.

> If side loading is allowed the amount of tech support I'll have to provide my family will skyrocket.

I mean, if apple ever allow sideloading I suspect it will be behind a 10 feet wall warning and obscure multiple clicks on settings, similar to how google does it.

I also suspect that my family will be divided into two camps: oblivious to the existence of sideloading or technical enough that won't need my tech support.

[ikt]

how big is your family that an option an overwhelming majority of android users don't touch or even know about is going to skyrocket your support levels?

i don't even want to think about the level of intelligence you're suggesting your family has that they will go above and beyond the average person in deliberately breaking their own phones.

[keleftheriou]

Sideloading doesn’t imply that app isolation (sandboxing) is also going away, nor does it imply that any app would ever be able to trick the user into running it with escalated privileges (sudo/root) as is the case on most computers.

We’re not talking about going back to the old Windows security model where you were always one wrong click away from damaging other apps or the OS, or having your data stolen.

[curt15]

Do none of your family members already use desktop computers?

[cuddlybacon]

One side has a MacBook that only allows software from the AppStore. As far as I know, it gets used once every month or two.

The other side did not, until COVID started. Then they had to get one so their kid could attend online schooling. It is used just for that.