• suigenerix@lemmy.world
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    12 hours ago

    The limitations depend on which program you’re using - there’s more than one - which is why I only gave a simple example. And if you have to pay for a function that is otherwise free to many others, that’s a limitation.

    Side loading is installing an app from anywhere but the official store. So by definition “third party” is side loading. Whether it’s another store or authorised is irrelevant.

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      The limitations depend on which program you’re using - there’s more than one - which is why I only gave a simple example.

      No it doesn’t. It’s in all the documentation, official and otherwise

      Side loading is installing an app from anywhere but the official store. So by definition “third party” is side loading. Whether it’s another store or authorised is irrelevant.

      You can’t just make up a definition, believe it, and then share it like it’s true. We’re going by the legal definition as that’s the only one that matters.

      Apple only allows up to 3 apps or 10 appIDs to be sideloaded, wherever you are in the world. Period.

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        5 hours ago

        Youre not getting it. The developers of the tools can and do impose their own additional limitations. They’re still limitations of the programs which is what we were taking about.

        And it doesn’t matter what limitations Apple imposes in its walled garden, their phones can still be jail broken and side loaded in the more traditional way.

        The concept of sideloading is a general term that applies to multiple platforms, not something Apple owns or gets to dictate. No one is making up anything here.

        https://www.twingate.com/blog/glossary/side-loading

        Sideloading is the process of installing applications on a device from sources other than the official app stores.

        https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/sideload

        the practice of putting software on a computer or mobile phone, without using the official way of buying the software

        https://zimperium.com/glossary/sideloading

        Sideloading is the practice of installing mobile apps on a device that are not from the official app stores

        Etc.

        If your argument requires cherry picking, ignoring key points, and baseless ad homenims, it’s not a good point.