I’m gonna go out on a limb here and guess that the average user has no idea how iOS is designed. I’m guessing they like iPhones because they are abslutely brillinant hardware with long suport and the best selection of apps. Some (like me) may even choose iOS despite the fact that it’s so locked down.
I’m no doubt in the minority here, but I’m really looking forward to sideloading happening within the EU. Maybe it’ll be a “COMPLETE PRIVACY AND SECURITY NIGHTMARE!!! ”, or maybe it won’t be much of a big deal at all . It’s not like being able to sideload suddenly changes the iOS App Sandbox.
There are already loads of scam apps on the App Store (which for all Apple’s rhetoric is policed pretty badly) and there’s always Safari to redirect people to wherever a scammer likes. It’s not like iOS is completely safe now and my friends and family have somehow managed to survive the dangerous wild west that apparently is Android.
Do you mean the same Google that Apple are happy to take $12B a year from to invade their users’ privacy?!
For all the legitimately great work that Apple does on privacy, I’m still waiting for it it put it’s (literal) money where its mouth is.
It’s funny how when it does clamp down on security/privacy protection (the App Store / ATT), it just happens to massivly benefit their bottom line.
It’s also arguable how much ATT even does help with tracking. Apple only defines tracking as being across third part apps (again, for their own benefit!), which doesn’t stop Facebook or Google from still tracking what you do across their own apps).
Eh!?! That would be insane.
Many moons ago I thought there was a build difference with beta and release but I thought that was long gone with public betas etc.
Did I recall you saying you had access to dev tools properly and iOS devs at some point at your work?
The biggest risk I thought with the beta is screwing up your phone profile and background iCloud stuff (HomeKit used to have issues…) forcing a clean slate on all ends if it got too bad.
I know the phone profile can get borked from experience causing weird isolated glitches that happened to me and a few others only (as reported) so that’s the big risk with messing with beta on your DD (daily driver)
I have had spotlight search completely fail for several .X releases as I went beta and the builds had a search issue that was rare and unfixed by release and it followed the phones profile till I did a setup fresh. Likewise HomeKit/iCloud stuff can survive a fresh install as it synced to the cloud.
I scrolled up a bit but I am trying to find sources for this being how it still works as I don’t think it follows your phone profile, I thought it was just turned off like it works in other os’s.
When you say reinstall you mean a full image upgrade over the OTA patches?
I don’t know why OTA couldn’t disable nor remove debug as it can patch any of the OS or remove.
Is this a theory? (Not having a pop, just more confidence level)
I will need to have a play again for a look in Xcode when I have time. I just thought you had said before you developed on iOS or your company did.
”, or maybe it won’t be much of a big deal at all 
. It’s not like being able to sideload suddenly changes the iOS App Sandbox.
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