iPhone 15 + iOS 17! MAJOR CHANGES! 🤯 OMG.

Apple is planning to allow sideloading and 3rd party app stores on iPhones with iOS 17 starting in the EU next year. Here are my thoughts.

Timestamps
0:00 Intro
0:14 What is happening
2:17 Why it's important
3:13 My thoughts

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[PWingert]

They will have a setting to let you decide whether to allow third party app stores to be available to you on your phone and leave it off by default. That is my hope.

[Buford.TJustice]

Honestly I like the safe and enclosed sandbox of the apple ecosystem. I don’t want any apps or external elements jeopardising the safety of ny phone or ecosystem.

[wolfsonryan]

I guess you can remain safer if you just continue to only use the Apple App Store after all this is implemented. Up to the user.

[gtrhetgstrgryg]

The thing that really ruffles my feathers is no one is forcing anyone to buy the iPhone, it is their device and their platform and if you want to play you gotta pay to play. Android phones exist and are the other option to iPhone, you do not buy iPhone to have a smartphone to tinker with and sideload apps and do all kinds of things you would do with an Android phone. Thats like if I bought a PlayStation and complained it's not competitive to 3rd party game stores and I want to have Xbox games on it too to make it fair.

Now understand I am a tech nerd and love the idea of using 3rd party app stores and side loading apps on my iDevices but the way it's happening feels wrong.

[carneades.]

If you're on MACOS you can get your apps also from everywhere and developers have don't have tp pay anything to Apple except when you put your app in the Apple Appstore which is not a big succes. I see it as a win for consumers.

[dracorewolfblade]

Honestly, I think that this will make iOS a better competitor to Android. I’m genuinely excited for iOS 17.. I know that I’m always excited for more major iOS updates but I’m more excited than ever for iOS 17.

[jjodom]

I’m watching this video and I keep hearing Jon’s lefty-Bo-befty” bell ringing 🔔🔔🔔🔔

[jonsprog]

People who dont want to sideload dont have to do it!
But give people the chance to do it!
Competition is a good thing!

[ChaosMoogle]

Did a 5 year stint at Apple. Loved it (for the most part) but I definitely felt that the company fell apart (relatively) after Steve. Tim should fight harder. I respect changing the port HOWEVER, they shouldn’t have to change software. That’s literally branding.
This is actually scary how less secure this will be……. 😔


BUT!
If the iPhone is a decade old and new things are on the way… like AR glasses? Maybe iPhone just isn’t as important anymore

[joostvanderlee]

I loved the safe environment of apple, really curious now if they will keep the viruses away.

[wyseave]

I don’t think it would be a good idea because apple is not really known for viruses on there phones, they have a great reputation of security & smoothness of the software but this will kind of tarnish it in my opinion

[safwanali.a]

Honestly i love the Appstore for what it has been. Clean unified store where you can purchase download apps, pretty neat! and which is why it makes it stand out from the rest!

[thaneclark]

I feel like that’s such a sketchy change… the best part of iPhones is the safety, absolutely virus free

[michaelboldin]

was surprised to hear your more measured take on both sides of this issue. thanks for a good video.

[tompov]

I have always said that I think the iPhone should have a feature similar to System Integrity Protection on macOS. SIP is disable-able but it required a reboot into recovery and a terminal command. That is the level of difficult that makes it clear to most users it's a big deal and probably something they shouldn't do but also allows people who want to take that risk to do so. If the iPhone allows other stores and side loading it should be off by default and it should be *difficult* to enable but once it is enabled it should stay enabled just like SIP. That way people who want to take the risk can but people who don't know what side-loading even is cannot **accidentally** install a virus like on Windows PCs or Android phones

[johnprince]

these updates sound dangerous to the security of someone’s personal iphone

[LuisAngelSantos]

I’ll agree with the EU on USB-C on iPhone, but definitely not on sideloading!  shouldn’t be forced by the EU to make those changes; now it’s  vs the EU

[minwade]

I hope Apple build in a “button” that gives one the option to stay within the Apple “eco-system”. It’s OK for tech heads etc., to do side-loading but there are many peeps frightened by technology already this just make luddites more worried. Security 1st as most peeps lives are on their iPhones. Best wishes from Adelaide; South Australia🇦🇺💐

[MrAkella]

Ppl keep talking about "viruses" and everything, but in all the years of owning android devices I have yet to get a "virus". People are so melodramatic istg.

Apple hardware with more options for consumers is amazing, and before I get called an android bot I just recently bought my second iPad pro...

[Marngel]

You pretty much summed up my opinion on this topic. I am in favor of it for the reasons you laid out, as well as the fact that it weakens the power of Apple as a borderline monopoly. But it’s likely that allowing side loading will lead to a worse UX since companies like Meta and Amazon will use this to increase their surveillance power over Apple users. So while I’m in favor of side loading, I acknowledge there are drawbacks, and I wish people who are in favor of it acknowledge that there are compromises.