For example, I expect most users are like my mom and will never legitimately side load anything unless malware tricks her into it.
That being said, Apple should allow it like debug mode or whatever. I just don’t think it’s a big deal because it won’t be used much. And if Epic thinks many users will side load so they can avoid 30%, that’s unlikely.
Then make it not at all obvious how to do it. Grandma will never figure it out, and the 1% of us who WANT the feature can have it.
My mom is one of those millions who answer the phone and let scamsters walk her through setting up logmein and taking over her Windows box.
The only way I helped her was by switching her to Apple where this isn’t possible. Went from me cleaning her cheapo windows laptop up every six months to three years on an iPad with no cleanup.
Instead, everybody has to ask Apple to please pretty please let some software run on devices that they own.
Yes, you can get an enterprise license but Apple can take it away from you at any moment.
Apple also makes it very difficult for small businesses to get one in the first place.
Yes you do. It's $299/year and you have to be a company of a certain size and you need a D & B number.
It's the same deal that everybody gets. As a consumer if I wanted to pay Apple $100 per year, I could put my own apps on my phone too... but Apple can revoke my license to do that at any time for any reason.
The org mode stuff is to deploy apps to staff, not to bypass App Store.