Japan prepares regulation requiring Apple to allow sideloading

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Japan prepares regulation requiring Apple to allow sideloading - Lemmy.World

Japan prepares regulation requiring Apple to allow sideloading::As the Digital Markets Act antitrust law passed in the European Union, Apple has until March 2024 to let users…

I tried to install an old version of San Andreas recently on my phone cause the last update broke controller support (which I actually bought with money).

Apparently we don’t own our Android OBB directories anymore because of “safety”.

So far the “we Android users already have this”…

Yep, it’s unfortunate that manufacturers are taking more and more control away from users. That’s why open-source software like Linux is so important, you can do anything you want to with it.
Yeah Android is Linux. But Manufactures are limiting it so hard that it is sometimes nearly impossible to get a custom ROM on the phone.
That’s because the openers of the operating system is meaningless if the phone’s firmware isn’t open.
It’s open source so that anyone can manufacture a phone for it (good for business), not so you could install whatever you want on the hardware (bad for business)…