They do, just not as frequently. Most of these people are going for low hanging fruit with the largest userbase.
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Apple Facing Imminent U.S. Antitrust Lawsuit
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How does one know which apps are safe, then?
Closed ecosystem means there are checks and balances, no? Open ecosystem means anybody can do anything?
Up until recently nearly 100% has NOT been Apple. Tons of people don't buy Apple for the same reason. I'm more ok with this will a tablet or phone (I'm still Android) than a computer. I've actually found a ton of use for my iPad pro.
Just use Apples own app store exclusively (like before) and you're done.
Having a choice doesn't mean you have to choose other?
Every app declares/asks for the permission it needs. No guessing is required.
This 100% already it is like that already really. The Apple store isn't 100% safe either through, and they block some things just because of competition not safety.
No. It means the setting is a closed one — a citadel or fortress.
Shady things can and do happen inside citadels or fortresses.
It means better public oversight over the integrity of what’s presented.
This is the bedrock of the open-source software community: the checks and balances come from being able to review the source code for portential faults, bugs, security holes, and other correctable issues.
Panning back: Apple, Google, and other tech entities relish the word “ecosystem”, but an ecosystem is, literally, “a biological community of interacting organisms and their physical environment.” That’s from the Oxford Dictionary of English on your Dictionary.app.
Folks really need to think through those — pun not intended — roots when following what tech platforms condition users/product to conceptualize in lieu of what those things are actually said to do. They’re business platforms, not ecosystems.
There are plenty of taxpaying companies and individuals that support the DOJ's efforts to investigate, litigate, etc. potential antitrust violations by Apple. Based on your comments, very likely a lot more than you think or want to believe there is.
Yeah, imagine some company created a superior alternative to Siri and integrated it with iOS…
Oh wait, they can’t, cause Apple is gatekeeping that system integration.
“Support for this study was provided by Apple.”
They didn’t even mention some of the biggest software ecommerce providers even once.
Of the four services that I remember buying Mac software licenses from, they mentioned none.
…because Apple has made it clear time and again that they’re going to charge prohibitive access fees/commissions that make such access by third-party providers commercially unusuable (see their 27% commission on their external link entitlement or whatever ******** it’s called in the US or NL).
Do you luve in one of those two countries?
They’re most probably way less interested in you and have collected much less information on you than US services.
The US tech industry is mire than just Apple.
And anticompetitive practices by the (formerly and still almost) biggest company in history don’t bring innovation - or help the tech industry.
They haven’t broken any antitrust laws— the DOJ just erroneously thinks they have. It’s a stretch— government overreach.
If the DOJ were to successfully open the ecosystem and allow third party app stores and side loading, that’s when the malware for iOS will EXPLODE.
People really got to learn the app store approval process only provide the illusion of safety and oddly enough privacy. The OS is where the real safety and privacy is. The App store part going to be blunt the reviews are a joke and more of a pain in the ass. It is not hard to get around or even hide things from the reviewers so if you want to break some security you can get the app in the wild approved then turn on said item. Reviewer never see it or it is not something that protect them.
It has been done multiple times before. The App store only puts one extra step to getting it out but that is really it.
The OS is where the security and privacy are. The App store part is only an illusion.
Now imagine you could install a better replacement for Siri from a third party developer…
How bad did that make MacOS? Because you CAN load software not on the app store without too much trouble. It is just a check box.
Can you use something other than Cortona on Windows or Alexa on Amazon or Hey Google on Google?
It will be up to a juridical body to assess whether any competition laws were violated. In the U.S., that’s the third branch of a tripartite (meaning, “three-part”) constitutional government.
Also, a reminder: a government, in a representative democracy, is the manifestation and realization of a public body, a citizenry. That means: individuals, communities, cities, and states.
1) Malware can’t explode in an open-source software environment, because community developers have the direct means review that application’s source code and flag it for immediate fixes/patches if a security hole is spotted (and it, invariably, will).
Close that code — and the development process — from external developer scrutiny, and that open review apparatus is lost. That’s how viruses spread on a closed Windows, from the ’90s onward, and how malware propagates with closed platforms, APIs, and SDKs.
2) It’s a platform, not an “ecosystem”.
Apple is down almost $8 ... seems it's happening now.Imminent, meaning it will happen next month?
Except that mobile devices aren’t the ”big thing” anymore. AI is the next big thing and Apple is behind the competition. The DOJ, as usual, is behind the times and is fighting last decade’s battles.
While AI is going to be big it doesn't have as large an impact on people's lives the way mobile phones do. AI is likely to supplement and enhance rathe than replace the importance of mobile phones over the next few years (though in the long term some AI powered thing might fully replace phones I wouldn't bet on it being soon)
That’s because it’s the legislative branch (with legislation) and, remedially, the executive branch (vis-à-vis executive orders), to address a new technological paradigm with regulatory oversight, firmly and early, before it turns into an anti-competitive, hydra-headed juggernaut necessitating a judicial review.
Until fairly recently, legislative oversight was lax and hands-off in many jurisdictions world-wide for tech like always-online glass phones and the app platforms on which they depend. The GPDR was, probably, among the earliest major pieces of legislation to begin to rein in the online realm with some regulatory oversight and to look after the public interest.