Lee DunaA Jury Will Decide If Google's App Store Is an Unjust Monopoly
penquinImagine how Apple will feel if Google got docked for this. Apple’s app store is even worse. You can’t even side load apps on an iPhone/iPad without jailbreak.
ADON15You can side load them, kinda, its just a huge pain so your point still stands
Do you have a method that keeps sideloaded apps “verified” permanently? If you do, please do tell. I’d love to install YouTube++ on my kid’s tablet so they don’t have to sit through ads all the time.
Just download Xcode, it’s free, and it’s from Apple. With that you can deploy any app (if you have the binary) on ten devices linked to your own Apple ID and the devices of a hundred other Apple IDs (supposed to be work colleagues, but your kid’s tablet will be fine).
You can also “sideload” your app to up ten thousand devices linked to other Apple IDs via TestFlight which is intended for developers to test apps that aren’t ready for distribution yet, though that process does require a partial review by Apple (it’s mostly just an automated malware scan, not a full app review).