Show me the floodgates being open then. Not a report here or there, but the constant malware attacks happening everyday and affecting many devices.
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Apple's Craig Federighi Says Sideloading on iPhone Would Open the Floodgates to Malware
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Show me the floodgates being open then. Not a report here or there, but the constant malware attacks happening everyday and affecting many devices.
The argument for sideloading on iOS is being made by such a small number of actors, you have to question why they so want this ability, instead of questioning Apple why they won’t allow it. The VAST majority of both iOS and Android devices don’t use, want or in all likelihood even know what sideloading apps even is.
If you do not like it then go to malware central known as Android for which you might wish to tell them to get their act together.
I don't think it's me who fails to understand.
If I want to cut a new "opening" in the side of my house (sideloading), I should be able to do so. It's my house, after all. I can take all the doors and windows off if I want to. I can even put a sign on the door that says, "EVERYTHING INSIDE FREE" if I'm feeling especially self destructive and silly. But, hey, it's my house, it's my stuff, it's my decision.
If someone else wants to cut an opening in the side of my house and come inside and do whatever they want (CSAM scanning), that's, you know, not remotely the same thing.
Not on about identified developed but NON identified ones. Side loading is bad as I already have explained !
Of course he is somewhat correct. Now if that's an issue and people have to be protected is another one.
Given that Android has had sideloading from the beginning, you just did a masterful job of explaining why bringing it to iOS wouldn't amount to much of anything at all, beyond giving a small number of people an extra option.
I agree.
Except that the play store is absolutely riddled with malware and exploits such as side loading and FAKE BANKING APPS!
No. People choose iOS because it is the current 'cool' operating system. Years from now people will move on to the next thing. It is drilled in to people that iOS = good; Android = bad...when that isn't the case at all. Both operating systems are great and have their pros/cons. Can't let your friends see that green bubble though.
Sideloading apps on the iPhone (or even iPad) wouldn't open the floodgates to anything. Arguing otherwise is just ignorant or self-serving, like in Apple's case here.
Really? They why is Facebook still in Google Play? Oh that's right... because most people always go to their respective app stores for software. It's simple and easy. If it's not there, they move on.
Enabling sideloading will not lead to the end of times for apps or app stores. If that were true, Google Play would have died years ago or be a barren waste land.
The App Store is not perfect and can certainly be improved, that is the route that should be taken vs opening the floodgates for malware…
Talking about the iPhone not the mac and I am sure that Apple will ban you if you attempt to side load on the iPhone.
There are some pretty sophisticated hackers out there — why take the chance? An opening is an opening.
Exactly. If Retroarch is responsible for whatever people do with it, then wouldn't that make Apple responsible if someone used Safari to do something illegal? Or if they used iTunes to listen to or view pirated content?
How can people be so incapable of thinking these things through on even the shallowest level?
This is why Apple are not planning to retire, please stop with the FUD!
Last time I checked, apps stored on your iPhone's SSD run on iOS. You don't own iOS. So, yes, as always, you are being licensed (not sold) iOS. Apple owns the rights to iOS so they can control its use as they please.
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Then go elsewhere and have malware on your phone!
Craig is correct!
Well, it wouldn’t amount to much other than the shyte-ton of negative press Apple will get when a handful of people sideload apps that then unload their wallets of all their money. Android is open all right, open to malware and the criminals and bad actors who populate it with apps that never should have seen the light of day. Android doesn’t care because they’re simply providing the software basis for devices that other companies use, so they’re insulated from most of the worst negative issues their open software allows.
Yes it is called Google, look up the recent new virtually unbeatable Malware on the Play Store!
Repeating the phrase "opening the floodgates for malware" over and over again doesn't make it true. Again -- and I don't know how folks aren't able to understand so simple a concept -- if you don't want to sideload and "open the floodgates to malware" then, you know, just don't do it.
For instance, I don't want to risk plummeting to my death due to a parachute malfunction, so I don't routinely jump out of perfectly functional airplanes.
Of course, a strong argument could be made that the best way to improve the App Store would be to force it for the very first time to face some actual competition. That's generally how the free market works, and why monopolies are such a detriment to innovation.