Doesn’t matter. It’s an Apple platform and to quote your words is subject to scamware, malware, copy apps. Unless you are implying it’s OK to have this as long as it’s an Apple product which doesn’t have market share.
What’s wrong with the iPhone being different so that consumers have a choice of something that doesn’t work like everything else?
It does matter. If one is going to spend time and energy going after targets, why go Mac users which pale in comparison to iphone users? It's a rare person, who would own a mac bur not an iphone, but not rare to own an iphone and not mac. iphones $ for $ are a better target for someone's time and energy than macs. If one is going to go after Macs, might as well go after windows uses.
Same argument, number of users. Now I don't know exactly the number of mac users (estimated: https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/mac-market-share-10-percent-ios/), but it's estimated there are about 1 billion iphone users https://www.demandsage.com/iphone-user-statistics/ If you were writing malware and going after a target, which one would you pick?
No it shouldn't. Don't buy an iphone if it doesn't suit your requirements. Besides you may get what you asked for and not able to sideload the malware app of your choosing based on how Apple implements this.
Freedom is the ability to choose your platform. Buy what works best for you. If a platform doesn't have the functionality you need, buy the platform that does.
And android has this. IOS is a closed ecosystem.
It's about the devaluation of the entire platform.
So will you switch to kaiOS once this goes through?
But it's never been a selling point, that would be the tight Apple ecosystem integration. And I doubt your sole reason for buying iPhone is the closed ecosystem. If it is, see above ☝️
If anything, competition will push Apple to improve the App Store, so it's a win/win.
No, because ios will go from the best of the best to the best or worse. It's still the best for me, except the ecosystem is gong to take a dive.
Apple has made it so that closed ecosystem = tight ecosystem.
I see it as a lose/lose. Everything could use improvement, but the app store is pretty good, at least in my opinion.
Then why do you suggest switching to Android to those favorable to third party stores?
I don't know if I expressed myself unclearly but I was talking about features such as Handoff and AirPlay, which don't need a closed ecosystem and are also available on Mac.
Think about how the App Store could be if Apple improves it even further!
Because android has the functionality people desire eg sideloading. I’ve never claimed to want sideloading. In fact m assertion is a closed ecosystem at this point works very well.
Ok. There are many iOS features that could function on any platform.
Everything could use improving. Nothing is static. But you could email your feedback to feedback at apple dot com.
"Do as I say, not as I do." If you wouldn't change your phone when it becomes open (your desired functionality, i.e. the closed ecosystem, doesn't exist anymore), why do you expect others to do so?
I'm specifically talking about the Apple-only features, the one that are actually marketed by Apple.
I don't have to; thanks to the EU, Apple will make these changes autonomously
Because others want sideloading — a functionality that already exists on other devices. Why should I change my device when apple adds something I don’t like? It’s not as if they took away something I use.
Ok.
You might not be in agreement the way apple does this, and then I’ll smile.I don't have to; thanks to the EU, Apple will make these changes autonomously
Didn't you say you buy iPhone specifically for the closed ecosystem?
In that case I'll just switch to a different app store.
I still think that a large part of the people calling for sideloading on the iPhone don’t really need said feature.
The anti-Apple messaging last decade centered around how Apple products were too expensive and consumers would increasingly flock to cheaper android alternatives. Apple was positioned as constantly being one flop away from irrelevancy.
This made it possible for the haters to be gaslit by entire industries into thinking that concepts like smart speakers and folding phones were the future. They were just so desperate to believe that Apple was doomed.
This decade, it certainly seems like the central theme undergirding Apple criticism is that Apple has gotten too powerful and needs to be reigned in. Support for opening up iOS is less because these people genuinely think it’s in the best interest of iOS users, and more because it’s viewed as one of a declining number of ways they can pull Apple down a peg or two.
A means to an end, if you will. And why I look forward to seeing Apple’s response to this. Gut feel - it’s not going to turn out the way people think it will.
www.macrumors.com
Yes Apple will have to abide by the law, even if it makes their products worse for consumers.It will likely end the same way their last disagreement with the EU did.
Apple pushes back against EU common charger, warns of innovation risks
iPhone maker Apple on Thursday pushed back against EU lawmakers' call for a common charger, warning the move could hamper innovation, create a mountain of electronic waste and irk consumers.www.reuters.com
and then..
Greg Joswiak: Apple Will Have to Comply With the EU and Switch iPhone to USB-C
Apple's vice president of worldwide marketing, Greg Joswiak, today said that Apple will have to move to USB-C on iPhone and its remaining devices...
Well, there's complying, and there's complying. Allowing sideloading isn't as straightforward as replacing the iPhone's lightning port with a usb-c port (and even then, there's ambiguity, like the speed of the usb-c connection, which Apple could in theory use to differentiate their various iPhone lineups).
