Who... my friend?
They install a rogue app... yet I'm affected.
I'd like that not to happen. Thank you very much.
Hmmm... so there are some dodgy apps on Apple's App Store. And that's
with App Review and whatnot. Fine.
Now imagine a 3rd-party app store with NO care or oversight. Nobody monitoring what data goes in and out.
Do you want your friends and family, or anyone in your contacts list to use that other app store? Do you want them to tap a link in an Instagram ad and be taken to some random app store where they could download some data-vacuuming app?
All I'm saying is... look at the possibilities. We've never had to deal with 3rd-party app stores because they simply weren't allowed.
But once the walls come down... anything is possible. You can't unring that bell.
All I can hope is that if Apple is forced to allow 3rd-party app stores... that they also put in extra precautions at the system level. Gatekeeper or whatever. Super-sandbox EVERYTHING.
Apple's not gonna let some unchecked app have deep system access.
They're probably gonna have to rewrite iOS to accommodate that. Thanks UK.