iOS App Sideloading

Just side load it apple user! Surely the great apple would never lock you in to a walled garden?

The closest Apple is likely to get is allowing some form of side-loading.

The App Store will not stop existing if sideloading is made possible

The solution is to allow sideloading on iOS. If you don't like the app store ToS then you have the option to not use it.

There's nothing inherently wrong with an app store as long as you can choose alternate stores (like F-Droid) or are able to sideload. (as OSX allows) The issue occurs when you're locked in to Apple's store so you're at their mercy. However, there's not much you can do other than to use software that grants you those rights. Apple is free to lock down their software as much as they want since it's theirs unfortunately.

Apple cannot disallow this, as quite a bit of software is distributed outside of the App Store.

And Apple makes it so you can't even install apps outside their app store.

Absolutely. I have no problem with them not wanting the app in the app store, but they should allow side loading or alternative app stores. We should have the same situation on ios that we have on macos.

But apple can ban other stores in it's store. They can say 'we made platform open to sideloading, you can even sideload other stores' in combo with several warnings that sideloading is dangerous when a user attempts to do it. This can guarantee that apps will stay inside appstore bc it will be too hard for users otherwise

This is silly. They could still keep the store strict and let you side load apps like on Android or the Mac. We would all lose nothing and only gain.