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This is 100% true. And all apps goes through App Store approval process, which makes all the censorship talk kind of moot.

Sideloading has to become a default, somehow without us returning to antivirus era. Problem is that no one knows how to make that happen.



It's funny how common jailing-breaking iPhones used to be, I did mine immediately when it would come out and everyone else I knew did too. Now I don't know a single person that does.


You know what, that’s a great insight. I got the iPod touch precisely because it could be unlocked to be a pocket Unix with shell. 15 years later, it still is and isn’t. Like, lol not at all ha ha. It was a giant, near irrecoverable mistake to computing freedom.




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