{"id":41161,"date":"2021-10-13T17:57:14","date_gmt":"2021-10-14T00:57:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=41161"},"modified":"2021-10-13T23:57:35","modified_gmt":"2021-10-14T06:57:35","slug":"new-sideloading-warning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=41161","title":{"rendered":"NEW SIDELOADING WARNING"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apple is making the case in a new white paper on Wednesday for why it says device downloads should not be allowed from outside of its App Store.<\/p>\n<p>In this case, it is making the argument against &#8220;sideloading&#8221; as both European Union regulators and American lawmakers consider forcing Apple to allow it.<\/p>\n<p>Sideloading refers to the process of downloading applications onto a device from anywhere other than the manufacturer&#8217;s proprietary store. That could mean downloading apps from third-party stores or directly from web browsers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If Apple were forced to support sideloading, more harmful apps would reach users because it would be easier for cybercriminals to target them \u2013 even if sideloading were limited to third-party app stores only,&#8221; Wednesday\u2019s paper from Apple reads.<\/p>\n<p>Critics have argued that Apple\u2019s walled-garden approach to its devices gives it a stranglehold over app developers that it can exploit to charge exorbitant fees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple is making the case in&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41161"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41162,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41161\/revisions\/41162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}