Do you think Android will one day become so restrictive that sideloading (installing apps outside of Playstore) will become extremely limited, or completely banned?

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Hoe does Apple comply ,

Law comes into effect march 2024. Apple will need to comply then

AFAIK they have no way of doing that. This would be a huge undertaking.

Doesn't Apple already allow side loading to some degree?

You can just put an app onto a iDevice through iTunes, without having to run it through the App Store. Apple even puts out a specifically outdated version of iTunes that still retains much of the App functionality.

It's not as though they're trying to build the feature in from scratch.

I have a few side-loaded apps on my phone through TrollStore. iirc they don’t support anything relatively new though.

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Why would it be a huge undertaking? Allowing installing apps from package files obtained from anywhere seems like a trivial change to the software for a company with a lot of resources.

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