I meant in general, Apps that you can just download straight from your browser and install it. You never know what could be in it.
As far as notifications, probably not an issue. Maybe keyloggers if it has a keyboard.
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I meant in general, Apps that you can just download straight from your browser and install it. You never know what could be in it.
As far as notifications, probably not an issue. Maybe keyloggers if it has a keyboard.
I meant in general, Apps that you can just download straight from your browser and install it. You never know what could be in it.
As far as notifications, probably not an issue. Maybe keyloggers if it has a keyboard.
Ok, I'll play. In case you aren't aware, Android permissions and security requires that you explicitly allow 3rd party apps to install, even though warning dialogues say to be careful. The Amazon app store is a perfect example You must explicitly allow wit to install. It's legit, that is if you trust the largest e-Commerce company on earth. I do.
iOS just ignores these, however OS X and Windows allowed the user to set thresholds they are comfortable with when installing non-certified apps from the prospective app store or worse, *gasp* from the evil interwebs!!1 That's all fine and well, and necessary, for sure. Grandma doesn't need bonzai buddy on her iPad, we know that. She isn't seeking nor installing /going through the bypass dialogues to install, so what's the worry?
I guess there is is a balance of what is considered shady unapproved apps and apps in the iOS/Google Play store that have been through the approval process by each corporation. The app in question here, passed this approval with flying colors. It's swipe down and action features got Apple into a tizzy. Why?? It's not malware. It's not the Y2K bug. It's added functionality. 2015 is weeks away. Innovate and compete guys!
Apple is shutting solidly developed apps that give useful functionality down with a threat. In this case, the only reasonable question I can come up with is:.........
Why? I was approved, then provided "OMG ANDROID LIKE" controls (!!!!!!!) and Apple's policies went into overdrive control mode, shaking the corporate threat stick if he didn't alter his app to exclude these features. 2010 thinking guys. Let's get past this.
It's a strange world we live in, iOS. Thankfully I have Android (MALWARE/KEYLOGGER FREES!) and I love it. I also love the Apple equipment in my signature that I use every day, but each minute of every hour, I stare at those devices, wondering when the iron fist will clamp down mandating that I can't do this or that on my several thousand dollars worth of equipment. Want the new XYZ app that was just submitted to the approved store? The one that allows actions from the notification shade? NNNOOOPPEE! LOL. PULLED beyotches. Nice. For no good reason. They approved this one. It's not malware. It's not sketchy. It provides very useful things. Apple discovered this and a war was started. Nice.
I guess I'm alone with this fear. Sure we want curated safety, but where's the line between safe and useful and safe and shady? Guess that's left in Tim's hands. Cool. But scary, IMO.
Again end of post. I know I'll be called out as wrong, Android schill, etc. But no. I use all platforms and enjoy pointing out opportunities in each. Apple is wrong here, full stop. If they are in the right, please defend. We are all ears.
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^^ the above could happen but I have to go into my settings and very specifically allow such apps to be installed. They make it very clear that I am accepting risks related to non approved third party sources. It's not like someone is going to mistakenly install a risky app. They are protected by default and warned before any changes are allowed..
That hasn't and doesn't stop tons of users from installing all kinds of malware and viruses on their computers over the years.
This is a nice way for Apple to tell the devs to "go fck yourself, we don't care about the developers"
Well atleast there is Android
peace out
Well atleast there is Android
peace outApple has been doing app reviews and going back on things here and there when refining some guidelines (especially for new features) for years and years, and yet the developers keep on coming and coming. So...yeah...This is a nice way for Apple to tell the devs to "go fck yourself, we don't care about the developers"
Well atleast there is Android
indeed.
Last follow on to my above post. Let's put this into perspective. This is the source of the pissing contest/war.
If that's not indicative of fear/control, please explain. Apple is in the software stone age here.
Purely ridiculous control war going on here. Zero logical reason as to why.
Nice.
If that's not indicative of fear/control, please explain. Apple is in the software stone age here.
Purely ridiculous control war going on here. Zero logical reason as to why.
Nice.
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The reasons are that those are the guidelines or the refined guidelines that Apple has for iOS. It's how iOS has been since pretty much the beginning and how it's set up to be basically. There's nothing new or strange about it--just a different way of how a mobile OS and ecosystem is designed.
Instead of recognising that Apple has not been consistent here and are plainly in the wrong, you drag another OS into the argument without provocation.
It wouldn’t be so bad if you mentioned Apples arbitrary guidelines as well but you completely saw and ignored them.
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Yes they do. I wouldnt mind betting that most do. Most people wanted MMS before Apple provided it, (one of probably countless examples), the savvy find a workaround while the luddites grin and bear it. There are lots of things that even granny wants to do, (some simple, some complex), that she assumes cant be done just because it isnt easily available or isnt a stock installation.
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There must be more than one stage in the review process, this Im betting had gotten past a lot of people in the chain before it made it as far as the App Store.
oh no World War 3 has started in Cupertino....
*ducks & covers*
Are we slowly seeing a trend in adding as much cruft to Notification Center so that we are suddenly overwhelmed with useless info ? (not all of it is useful, maybe to some)
For now, its still clean, but with the way users can add their own stuff to Notification Center just seems they shouldn't have this power...
Leave this space for Apple, otherwise you let users do their own thing, and they will have this trouble they are experiencing now with whats allowed.
Why dig a hole, if you can't get out ?
*ducks & covers*
Are we slowly seeing a trend in adding as much cruft to Notification Center so that we are suddenly overwhelmed with useless info ? (not all of it is useful, maybe to some)
For now, its still clean, but with the way users can add their own stuff to Notification Center just seems they shouldn't have this power...
Leave this space for Apple, otherwise you let users do their own thing, and they will have this trouble they are experiencing now with whats allowed.
Why dig a hole, if you can't get out ?
War, huh.
So, do the article authors also create the article titles? Or should I blame someone else.
So, do the article authors also create the article titles? Or should I blame someone else.
You may have the answer here: not just cohesion, but integration with the watch (some kind of phone/watch handoff). That might explain the inconsistent policy application
(the approvals department didn't previously know what the watch could do or what notifications were really for).
Really?
http://www.pcworld.com/article/2099...roid-apps-spike-in-the-google-play-store.html
If there is no threat of malware, why do antivirus apps exist?
This should doom apple, for sure.
Chicken little scenario aside, chances are few people will even know about it and even less people will care.
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Yeah those "shady apk sites"...like the Google play store:
http://www.pcworld.com/article/2099...roid-apps-spike-in-the-google-play-store.html
Truth delivered. Fact.
OS X isn't high on malware makers list due to the relatively low (%-wise) user base.
iOS would be a prime target.
"Notification center". Not "Note taking center", "Calculator center", "Word processor center", "Photoshop center" or anything else. The clue's in the name.
Ffs. Just last week I was thinking how much more useful my iPhone had become, specifically because of being able to Drafts through the notification centre. Made everything so quick and easy... Hate not updating - but might just make an exception here.
Really annoying!
Really annoying!
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I was wondering that myself.
I think Apple needs to create a new "shortcuts" area where these sort of things can live. Maybe it'll be a 3rd tab? So we'll have:
Today | Notifications | Shortcuts
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What's your point? Is Apple the Savoir in Technology land saving the dumb people from themselves? No thanks.
The rest of us don't need BIG BROTHER Apple stepping into our lives any more than they already are.
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So I guess the iPhone is a Phone and shouldn't be used for anything else? Hey if you don't like it, the clue is in the name people.