danielinoa

It's called "sideloading" because you're sneakily installing software without the manufacturer's consent. Remember it's never your device, you just have permission to use it.

So the egg does indeed come first before the proverbial chicken.

Quality of life in what sense? How do you contend with the fact that your iOS apps, unlike web apps, can be arbitrarily gate-kept?

There is a syntax error in the example shown by that article. If you must use any time to find it then you should not go with PHP.

That is currently unclear.

Apple is likely to maliciously comply by allowing external links yet introducing new restrictions and guidelines that will dissuade developers from even trying.

This would be in line with their attempt to charge further commissions in South Korea and the Netherlands after being forced allow alternative payment systems for certain app categories.

They only ban unprofitable apps. Scam apps that make money are typically okay since Apple gets a 30% cut.

If this fact makes you uneasy just know that 100% of the universe's galaxies, except the one we are currently in, are already unreachable within your lifetime.

Not quite. There can be a null value if the object type allows for it, think Optional<T>. What you can't have is an undefined object, as you could in Javascript for example.