<story><title>iOS 17 will reportedly set the stage for sideloading apps on iPhone</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2023/04/17/ios-17-will-reportedly-set-the-stage-for-sideloading-apps-on-iphone/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mort96</author><text>What happens when the apps which used to be available on the app store get taken down and made sideload-only, like what Epic did with Fortnite on Android?</text></item><item><author>FloatArtifact</author><text>Having the power to choose side load is a net benefit. For those that have any sort of fear, they simply just get apps from the official store.&lt;p&gt;Could and will people be taking advantage of by side loaded apps? The obvious answer is yes, it&amp;#x27;s a risk that allows for responsibility and freedom.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>toast0</author><text>If you don&amp;#x27;t want to sideload, then don&amp;#x27;t. If companies don&amp;#x27;t want to be on the platform app store anymore, it&amp;#x27;s not the end of the world. I ran a windows phone for several years; if there&amp;#x27;s no app for something, there&amp;#x27;s usually a website, and Safari is loads more usable than mobile IE or mobile Edge; so you&amp;#x27;re fine for the most part.&lt;p&gt;Yeah, you might lose out on playing FPS games on your phone, but is that really a loss?</text></comment>
<story><title>iOS 17 will reportedly set the stage for sideloading apps on iPhone</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2023/04/17/ios-17-will-reportedly-set-the-stage-for-sideloading-apps-on-iphone/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mort96</author><text>What happens when the apps which used to be available on the app store get taken down and made sideload-only, like what Epic did with Fortnite on Android?</text></item><item><author>FloatArtifact</author><text>Having the power to choose side load is a net benefit. For those that have any sort of fear, they simply just get apps from the official store.&lt;p&gt;Could and will people be taking advantage of by side loaded apps? The obvious answer is yes, it&amp;#x27;s a risk that allows for responsibility and freedom.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Hamuko</author><text>&amp;gt;&lt;i&gt;like what Epic did with Fortnite on Android?&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;Epic pulled Fortnite from Google Play Store in 2018 because they wanted to keep more of Google&amp;#x27;s 30% share and they were back in 18 months because most people aren&amp;#x27;t that determined to get an app outside of the official app store.&lt;p&gt;Any company pulling their apps from the App Store must have a pretty good reason to do so, because they&amp;#x27;re gonna be decimating their download numbers.</text></comment>