[enricotal]

"Allow Markeplace from Epic Games" Wow....

This is a small step in installing an app, but a giant leap for digital freedom. I hope that non-UE citizens can achieve this goal by the end of the decade, not because it is easy, but because it is hard.

[jajko]

Its hard only because greedy corporation execs decided to milk its userbase dry, while giving them massive FU in the face coupled with a tasty spit. Technically, they already done it without breaking a sweat.

But amount of pass apple gets from mostly US folks even here on HN and elsewhere, despite all their intentional missteps and fuckups is staggering. Main reason for me to stay away from whole ecosystem, price wise they are just in upper middle tier, functionality wise it depends what you need/expect - from great to pretty much horrible proposition. If google would be chinese corp I would get it when crowds get into us-vs-them mindset, but this fanatism has no base in reality, its more like blind political support of candidate X despite massive character flaws, just because you already invested yourself heavily in given party direction for topic Y.

They will keep doing it exactly and only to the point when users will start voting with their wallets, hoping for some apple moral auto-correction is a pipe dream with some serious stuff in that pipe. Or leave it up to regulators with some morals, but I struggle to imagine this working anywhere else outside of EU, and I am not positive about the future change (hoping to be wrong of course). Until apple does something both nasty and visible, they will continue to be uncritically celebrated.

[dotancohen]

  > not because it is easy, but because it is hard.
 

Terrific reuse! Thank you.

[nottorp]

How's the EU only iOS? I stopped updating at 17.3.1 because I had a feeling it will be buggy in the beginning. Is it safe to use it now?

[thejsa]

It’s the same bits, just with feature flags for things like eligibility to install third party stores.

[nottorp]

Well if you look at the uBlock Origin comment thread that I started on this article, someone told me you can have that on iOS in theory. Turns out they were just assuming as well.

That's why i ask for first hand experience.

[jeroenhd]

I've installed every update and I've never had an issue. I don't use iOS much, but I don't think I've ever seen a bug. I have seen some weird behaviour, but that could just be me mostly using Android and not knowing how iOS does things.