Yes, or paying the $100 fee for a free FOSS app, or publishing an app that is too ‘spicy’ like an app for fetlife, or ‘possibly embarassing’ like emulators that can be used to play pirated content. There’s only positives here IMO.
Edit: Oh yes or full-featured browsers like Firefox of course, like @Inxtx mentions. Good point. I always use Firefox on Android because it blocks many trackers by default and has uBlock Origin and Dark Reader.
Once this is implemented, what sort of apps are people hoping to see available?
All sorts of FOSS projects that understandably can’t be bothered dealing with Apple’s absurd App Store policies.
Yes, or paying the $100 fee for a free FOSS app, or publishing an app that is too ‘spicy’ like an app for fetlife, or ‘possibly embarassing’ like emulators that can be used to play pirated content. There’s only positives here IMO.
Edit: Oh yes or full-featured browsers like Firefox of course, like @Inxtx mentions. Good point. I always use Firefox on Android because it blocks many trackers by default and has uBlock Origin and Dark Reader.
Browsers with engines other than the WebKit, e.g. native Firefox with the Gecko.
The FOSS community will gain momentum.
They should allow gecko browsers in the apple store too, otherwise Mozilla won’t bother making it for only a few users.
I’ve definitely noticed a demand for emulators. Apple does not permit those on their app store.
We’ll probably see shitloads of spyware and other questionable apps.
I doubt it. Apple will make the process scary enough that users won’t get tricked into this.
Depends on how open the EU will force them to be.