I did jailbreaking for a while. It means being on an old OS all the time because it takes time for the jailbreaks. And I shouldn't have to jailbreak to side load apps. There should be an officially supported channel.

> make it far, far harder for Apple to make any performance, security and stability guarantees about their devices.

You mean like my laptop? Somehow they manage to maintain guarantees despite the fact that I can load any software I want.

To be fair, you can sideload apps on to your iPhone, it just that if you are not part of the Apple Developer program you'll need to resign them every seven days.

I am an Apple Developer, but that still requires me to use open source apps, since I have to compile it myself. Also it's a lot of effort.

It would nice if I could just go to a web page, click a link, and say "load this app, I accept the performance/security risks this entails". Like I do with my laptop.

> I am an Apple Developer, but that still requires me to use open source apps, since I have to compile it myself.

As I've mentioned in another reply, you want to use Cydia Impactor to resign apps.

"You mean like my laptop? Somehow they manage to maintain guarantees despite the fact that I can load any software I want."

I don't think that's true. I bet an iPhone is a lot more secure and stable than a Macbook Pro.

> I don't think it's controversial to say opening up ways to load apps outside of the app store will make it far, far harder for Apple to make any performance, security and stability guarantees about their devices

Why would this necessarily be the case? Apps on iOS are already pretty restricted as to what they can do - they can only access files they create (or have to ask for permission), they have to get permission to use the camera/microphone/etc, they're throttled pretty severly when they're in the background, and they can't modify any parts of the system UI. Even if you did install a malicious app, what would it be able to do?