> But in practice, users in the EU will lose the choice to solely remain on the App Store and keep all of Apple’s industry-leading protections, even if that is what they would prefer.<p>Sounds like an implementation issue. Android users have to jump through a number of hoops before they can enable sideloading, but the OS still allows it if the owner enables the feature. It's nicely tucked in as a "developer feature" that you don't need to pay for to activate.