The EU requires Apple to allow sideloading of iPhone applications but Apple reportedly hopes to control which apps can be sideloaded. (via Cult of Mac - Apple news, reviews and how-tos)

Apple is planning to add new fees and restrictions when it begins allowing third-party app downloads outside its App Store in response to a new European Union law intended to tear down its walled garden. Aaron Tilley, Salvador Rodriguez, Sam Schechner, and Kim Mackrael for The Wall Street Journal: ‎ The company’s plan, which would only apply in Europe, will allow users to download software onto the iPhone for the first time without using the App Store. Apple’s approach to the EU law will help ensure the company maintains close oversight of apps downloaded outside the App Store, a process known as sideloading. The company will give itself the ability to review each app downloaded outside of its App Store.…

Margrethe Vestager and Tim Cook meet to discuss the EU's Digital Markets Act, which requires Apple to make changes to the iOS for sideloading iPhone apps. (via Cult of Mac - Apple news, reviews and how-tos)

The European Union’s recently signed Digital Markets Act requires that what it calls gatekeepers – Apple and other operators of app stores – must allow for sideloading, or letting people put apps on their phones from outside of those App Stores. Apple’s App Store currently is the only place for iPhone and iPad users to get apps, outside of jailbreaking. Apple says the current “walled garden” system is an important protection, but critics argue that it gives it too much power over the device. Andrew Griffin for The Independent: ‎ The introduction of sideloading is just one of the many controversial parts of the Digital Markets Act. But if it goes through as planned, the company will be forced to…

Apple filed a challenge to an European Union law that requires iPhones to allow sideloading applications. (via Cult of Mac - Tech and culture through an Apple lens)

The good news is that iPhone could finally allow users to install applications directly starting in 2024. But there's also bad news. (via Cult of Mac - Tech and culture through an Apple lens)