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A Brazilian judge gives Apple 90 days to allow sideloading on iOS in Brazil, saying the “limitations” imposed by Apple on developers could deter new competitors. (valorinternational.globo.com)
submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by Tea@programming.dev to c/technology@lemmy.world
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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.

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[–] hummingbird@lemmy.world 67 points 2 days ago (4 children)

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.

[–] abfarid@startrek.website 23 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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. @avieshek@lemmy.world is an expert.

[–] abfarid@startrek.website 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Thanks, good to know.

[–] avieshek@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

Here’s a link to the Guide: https://is.gd/sideloading

I focus on free methods hence a bunch of things one needs to read through first like revokes in order to avoid them. Even if you go with the paid route, there are services that allow you to gain a certificate for much less as they distribute the price of one developer account to multiple users which is in the form of a private cert. The tutorial is supposed to guide you through the usage of enterprise certificates instead as it allows to sideload for free.

I do moderate this community for announcements & discussions: !sideloading@lemmy.world

[–] ConstantPain@lemmy.world 14 points 2 days ago

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.

[–] lars@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 2 days ago

Any similarities to Windows Explorer are unintentional and of course too retro to be ironic

[–] Petter1@lemm.ee 4 points 2 days ago

Like in EU..