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Setapp Mobile seemed like one of the many alternative app markets with promise that launched in the wake of the EU’s Digital Markets Act. While the law may have forced Apple to allow third-party app stores on its devices, it couldn’t make users actually embrace them.

With the exception of Riley Testut, not a single iPhone user was clamouring to be able to install a third party app store on their phone. What they wanted then - and still want now - is the ability to install software in the same way they can on their computers (be that Mac or Windows).

Apple knowingly made the process as awkward and convoluted as possible and it’s worked out exactly as they wanted it to.

I have an iPad mini which I don’t really use for much these days, not since I tentatively walked away from Apple products into the world of Linux, and FOSS, and have subsequently discovered that, while my MacBook works pretty well with most of the things I have running on my Linux machine, my iPad does not. In fact, at this stage I can get more cross-platform utility from a ten year old Galaxay Tab running LineageOS. If I could install software from any location without having to fuck about with a third part app store (though I can’t even do that because I’m in the UK, not EU), then I’d have half a chance of finding other, more useful software.

Yep. It’s off by default, but is the first thing I switch on when I first install Libewolf on any machines.

You end up with a classic FF experience without any of the bullshit.

In settings, turn on Firefox syncing, and boom! you have password saving.

Yeah, it’s literally one button and cookies remain.

Personally I’ve left that setting on, but click the one in the address bar on every site that I want to retain cookies. There aren’t that many of those.

Also, turn on Firefox syncing and it’s just like using regular Firefox, but without the nonsense.

Yeah, I ended up dropping 4Gb in that one. For some reason it could only see 3Gb, but it made it immensely more useful. It got me through a radio production degree and only got replaced because I happened to find myself in a position to be able to afford a 13" Pro a few years later. In fact, it’s still in a box somewhere.

I’ll never forget buying my first MacBook in '07 and asking the guy how much it would cost to bump the RAM from 1Gb to 2Gb. He told me in no uncertain terms that I’d be better off looking online for a cheaper price.

Well, in the intervening years they certainly have closed that loophole.

Yeah, I have Steam installed on an SSD in my Kubuntu machine, but it’s kinda small, so I have the library pointing to an internal 2Gb HDD. It runs RDR2 flawlessly.

I was merrily listening to Apple Music via WinApps the other day, when the Windows guest threw up a notification that it hadn’t found any malware. Literally no way to dismiss it without quitting out of any WinApps I had open.

Good old Windows.

I have WinApps running on the little Dell PC I have at work. It’s only an i3 with 8Gb RAM, but it’s ok with Apple Music and MS Office apps. I wouldn’t want to seriously run any games through it, mind.