With the Digital Markets Act (DMA) soon taking effect, a new report claims that Apple has plans to still charge developers a fee that it would need to pay the company for its offer of sideloaded apps.

Sideloading means installing apps outside an official app store, such as from a file you downloaded via browser instead of via Google Play Store or the App Store. Sideloading lets you access a variety ...

Use left and right arrow keys to seek audio. Ever since the iPhone was first released in 2007 the only way to install apps has been via the App Store, unless you went down the jailbreaking route of ...

Faced with the European Union's Digital Markets Act (DMA) going into effect in March, Apple has announced that it is now allowing app sideloading in the EU, effective with the beta version of iOS 17.4 ...

The days are numbered for Apple's exclusivity for its iOS platform to download apps only from its App Store, as it is expected that it will soon allow sideloading but only for the EU nations. For the ...

Be enrolled in the Apple Developer Program as an organization incorporated, domiciled, and/or registered in the EU (or have a subsidiary legal entity incorporated, domiciled, and/or registered in the ...

Use left and right arrow keys to seek audio. Apple has a long history of being very much convinced that the only way people should be allowed to install apps on their iPhone is via the App Store. Web ...

Thanks to the European Union's Digital Markets Act, earlier this year sideloading became possible on iOS devices in Europe. In a historic shift, Apple finally unlocked the gates to its tightly ...

We knew iPhone sideloading was inevitable in Europe long before Apple actually announced the feature. By sideloading, I don't just mean the ability of an iPhone user to download any application ...

Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) is reportedly planning to implement fees and restrictions for apps downloaded outside of its App Store. This comes in response to a new European law that requires Apple to ...

Apple is currently beta testing a Managed App Distribution (MAD) system that could conceivably be used to support third-party app stores on iPhones. Apple’s plans for sideloading of apps via stores ...

I told you recently that I think Apple should make iMessage for Android a priority. It should release an app as similar as possible to the iPhone version and tax Android users for it. That was in ...