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		ksec on Jan 1, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Shigeru Miyamoto wants to create a kinder world I remember one of the reason was because of software piracy. On iOS it shouldn't be required since you cant install anything other than from App Store anyway. And so to make it fair for both iOS platform and Android platform they had it on.

djxfade on Jan 1, 2021 [–]

But you can install software on iOS without the App Store, you don't even need to be jailbroken

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