[notnmeyer]

i’d guess it’s more to keep extremely low effort submissions out of the app store.

[Gigachad]

Which is not unreasonable for something listed in the App Store. It is unreasonable that you can’t sideload though.

[phire]

I'm pretty sure the $99 fee is explicitly there to prevent "normal" users from side-loading.

[eddythompson80]

It could be playing 2 roles, acting as a limiting gate for the App Store spam and preventing a simple 2 step tutorial to enable side loading.

[notnmeyer]

yeah, this also makes sense