Linked by Hadrien Grasland on Sat 25th Jun 2011 08:55 UTC, submitted by John

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Read the post again. He was talking about having an official sideloading mechanism, like what Microsoft apparently plans to do with WP7.
Could be the winning compromise in the end, and though I'm not fond of it it could be satisfactory.
Could be the winning compromise in the end, and though I'm not fond of it it could be satisfactory.
My guess is that Apple will make it as easy and attractive as possible for its users to download apps from its curated App Store. And, it will still be just as easy to choose to install apps from web downloads etc; but perhaps Apple will insert enhanced cautions or warnings about installs that don't source from their store.
I don't get why some people like to use the "curated" adjective when talking about Apple's application store.
Maybe it's because of my limited English skills, but it always reads as an aggressive and subjective, flamewar-inducing term. Like, you know "everyone in the computing world has pest, except us because we have found a cure".
Edited 2011-06-26 13:46 UTC
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Read the post again. He was talking about having an official sideloading mechanism, like what Microsoft apparently plans to do with WP7.
Could be the winning compromise in the end, and though I'm not fond of it it could be satisfactory.