Thanks to new EU regulations, Apple will soon permit third-party app stores on the iPhone and iPad.
Although the change won’t take effect right away, Apple’s software engineers are working diligently to get ready to comply thanks to the EU’s Digital Markets Act, which takes effect in 2019.
EU Urges Apple to Allow App Sideloading to Address Monopolistic Concerns
The addition of sideloading, or installing software from sources other than the official Apple App Store, is part of this initiative.
This comes after USB-C, which the EU mandated be used as the default charging port for phone manufacturers and which Apple is anticipated to include in the iPhone 15 this autumn.
Apple has portrayed sideloading as harmful up until this point. Apple’s chief of software engineering Craig Federighi described it as a gold rush for the malware industry at the Web Summit 2021.
However, since its inception, the Mac has allowed users to install any app from anywhere.
Has malware flooded the Mac at any point in its nearly 40-year existence as a result of this? Not at all.
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Microsoft’s Phone Link App is Now Available for iOS on Windows 11
The new Phone Link program aims to break down the barrier between a Windows 11 computer and an iPhone running the iOS operating system.
It will facilitate communication between users and their friends, family, and acquaintances, but is the iOS-compatible version as effective as the version designed to link Android handsets with Windows 11?
All Windows 11 users worldwide can now download the Phone Link for iOS app. Microsoft said in a blog post that the Phone Link for iOS on Windows 11 is becoming available to consumers worldwide in over 85 markets and 39 languages.
Later this year, the updated app was scheduled for release. Microsoft has accelerated the launch, nevertheless, as a result of the enthusiastic response from Windows Insider Program participants.
In March, the developer of the Windows OS launched the app preview.
By mid-May, Phone Link for iOS should progressively be available to all Windows 11 users, according to Microsoft.
Users of Windows 11 have had access to the Phone Link for Android for a while now.