I don’t mind EU forcing Apple to allow third party App Store on their products, just please make sure there are 3 pop-ups, 2 password prompts and some provisioning profile installation before the user get to install some shady App Store alternatives. Not published on App Store means they’re not restricted to use the same iOS SDK as we iOS devs do, and potentially have ways to bypass system restrictions including those annoying but very important privacy alerts. I love tinkering my devices and I know enough to keep myself from harm, but being idiot-friendly has always been Apple’s virtue and many people buy their products precisely for that. Keep it at least as difficult as to jailbreak it, that way at least we could hope the risk of unscreened apps would only stay with those in the know. And perhaps add a flag to allow apps to check if the device is allowing any third party App Store. Many banking apps are already doing jailbreak check in some roundabout way. Since EU is now effectively forcing Apple to allow jailbreak, why not just make it easier for devs to check that? Just put it somewhere in the Info.plist, maybe call it “Allow execution on compromised environment” and default it to false.,(reply>), This is a total misinterpretation of apple