The mandatory .5 Euro charge per app means that an app store for free/OSS apps can't exist. :(<p>If our (sqlitebrowser.org) desktop application was instead an iPhone application, then our ~180k downloads a month would have us hitting the 1 million downloads limit in ~6 months.<p>This new Apple policy seems super anti-competitive.
the article repeatedly gets this wrong.<p>> With new EU rules and regulations, Apple is now required to allow the sideloading of apps to iOS devices<p>The DMA requires side loading <i>or</i> alternative app stores. Apple chose the latter.
I would say the title is using a strong word like "impossible" and it is not true. Even now, you can sideload apps if you have a developer account (or certificate, which you can generate a dozen using one account). This will stay happening. There is even a market for these certificates. Yes, this is ridiculous and annoying, and you pay apple more for freedom to use your device. But it is not impossible.