The Federal Regional Court of the 1st Region (TRF-1) has overturned a trial ruling and reinstated an injunction imposed by the Administrative Council for Economic Defense (Cade) on Apple, as part of an investigation into alleged abuse of dominant position in the app distribution market for iOS devices. According to the ruling, the company will have 90 days to implement the changes mandated by the antitrust authority.
I’ve beeen an Apple user long enough to remember when “sideloading” was called “installing software.”
Enshittification is subtle and started long before we realized. Weird nerds who wanted power over skill corrupted the internet back in the late 90s.
Sideloading (is supposed to) mean just transferring files between local devices, as in, you aren’t uploading or downloading them, you are going sideways. E.g you download a song to your pc, then sideload it to your mp3 player.
That’s also where it comes to installing phone apps, as you transfer the app file to the phone yourself. Being “outside” or “going around” the official method just happens to be another way to interpret the meaning of “side” in the word.
Enshittification is subtle and started long before we realized.
No it didn’t , lot of folks have been banging on about it for decades.
Like privacy, most peole dont give a shit until it’s too late and then say but no body said anything.
I’ve been screaming into the void from the mid '90s.
Man. I miss the FOSS Ios scene. I can’t believe that used to exist. Now it’s just a couple straggler apps and sideloading is a massive pain in the arse and jailbreaking is pretty much impossible.
There were many other weird nerds, creations of which I love finding available to me thanks to the Internet. Let’s not paint all with one brush.
I especially feel hurt over “power vs skill” comparison - my skill is mostly lacking, and I do love the power to communicate to everyone connected to the Internet using universal protocols and plethora of software that can operate over them.
I have found one thing I feel is unsolved, and my skill is impeding me at solving it, but what if I did solve it - who would use it? One man can’t make a radical change, and small steps would have already led us there if the humanity needed that.
Hopefully the court was clever enought to specify that the side loading must not be more difficult than installing via the store. Apple will for sure make it as complicated and user hostile as possible so they fulfill the ruling without having any practical impact.
Technically, sideloading is possible already, but you need a developer account, you’re limited to 3 sideloaded apps at a time, and you have to renew them every week.
So the more difficult way already exists.
There are ways without the dev account (faked certificate), but if you use a VPN, or update your Os, apple will blacklist your device. And you also need to have some very specific DNS settings blocking a bunch of apple domains. @[email protected] is an expert.
Thanks, good to know.
This will not fly here. It’ will be considered “bad faith” and will incur in penalties.
They’ll probably try tho, CADE will protest and the judge will make an adjustment to the rulling.
Any similarities to Windows Explorer are unintentional and of course too retro to be ironic
Like in EU…
Ok, but what about game consoles? I don’t like how Nintendo is abusing their dominant position in the software distribution for the Switch.
- Game consoles don’t have a duopoly
- You gotta start somewhere
Look at Sony’s position. They are still selling the Ps5 despite it having no games.
Yeah, i went Steam in stead, Nintendo makes my skin crawl with disgust.
Steam Decks are legit the best console on the market.
Brazil is really doing something together with the EU. Maybe the two should cooperate more.
And US inaction here actually stifles the kind of capitalistic competition
Like this?
Yes! Exciting news!
Making Mercosur more valuable is a good thing for South America itself in the sense that it keeps countries from doing radical movements. For example, Venezuela was suspended from it because of their violation of human rights.
Brazil gonna be new US, lol
In which areas? These news is certinatly not in that direction.
Like replacing US as one of the biggest trading partner of EU because you can trust Brazil government more than US government, and it is nearly on the same continent as US.
Not thought through, just a funny thought written down
Sorry that it has confused you
I wonder if they will implement the same malicious compliance as they did in the EU with the junk core technology fees and notarization requirements.
They don’t even have to do that anymore. They can just whisper in trump’s ear… “go on… tariff them, kek”.
You hear that? It’s the sound of Tim Apple’s erection growing.
Nice!
I don’t want to sideload anything on my iPhone.
Well you don’t have to, but it’s always good to have options
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More freedom would be to choose the phone you want and sideload whatever you want to it.
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This is how brain-broken capitalism has made people… The concept of an effective government actually regulating a company and forcing them to spend more money to do the thing they should be doing is just completely foreign to you.
That’s the whole point, to force iPhone to also have freedom.
Android is becoming less free every year; the more Apple gets away with, the closer Android/Google will drift towards it.
“iPhone vs Android” is the wrong battle
It’s “Us & Gov. vs Apple & Google & Gov”
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What’s the problem? Should those features only be available to people who know about jailbreaking? It seems like the pressure caused Apple to actually spend some money to add useful features that people obviously wanted. What’s the bad thing here?
Didn’t jailbreaking pretty much die because apple made it really hard?
Yeah, and last I heard (a few years ago) anything running apple M# chips is not jailbreakable.
then don’t.
it’s not something your being forced to do. it’s the lifting of an unnecessary restriction that in turn gives you more power on your device.
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If they don’t then they might lose the Brazilian market and who knows what comes after. It’s less about what Apple wants to do and more about what they might be forced to do.
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It costs them nothing. Sideloading on iOS is already a thing, they spend more restricting the hell out of it than just letting you do it
You’re right, at what cost…?
Windows and Mac OS are both closed source but both allow apps outside an app store. No issue with the code base there.
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I want to sideload things on my iPhone. Hopefully we’ll both be able to do what we want.
