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Sideloading Apps Would 'Break' the Security and Privacy of iPhone, Says Tim Cook
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How is that related to the retail example I mentioned just now? As if the retail model in my example would lead to authoritarian anything.
Here's your quote: "No shop carries everything in real life either. There are plenty of decisions made on what goes on the shelves and what doesn’t. I don’t see why this should be handled differently for digital."
Under that principle, MS gets to decide what apps you are allowed to download and use, and ISPs get to decide what political speech you're allowed to read or engage with.
And retail is heavily regulated, by the way.
I agree that Apple should be able to set the terms for the thing they've created from scratch.
And I think its ridiculous when they claim that security is the reason, and not control and revenue.
Privacy and security concerns are a smokescreen to protect their lucrative AppStore monopoly. The sooner Cook goes the better.
Do you apply this logic to other corporations, or just Apple? You'd prefer we live in a corporate free-for-all where nothing they do is regulated?
The lie is exactly what I said it was - that sideloading apps would "break the security and privacy" of iPhones. The false connection is that apps have to be in the app store to be certified as safe by Apple.
I think things should be regulated that are damaging to consumers. Like when the only way to get broadband internet was down a phone line and BT was the only option, the Government regulated that BT must give access to their exchanges to other providers. Then consumers were able to choose different suppliers, a bit like how we can choose smartphones from different manufacturers.
Well if most vpn providers would use stamdard protocols ( as but not limited to IPsec) and just provide a profile fir ios we would not need apps for vpn the client is allready included in the os and the connection can be easily totned of and on via settings
Uh, Tim, nobody is holding a gun to users’ heads forcing them to side load apps.
Like most political interviews they are puff pieces coordinated with Apple PR and NYT. They may even pay the NYT. I am amazed how much of new is coordinated PR having participated in a little of it.Hey, he's happy again.
What is the purpose of these interviews, they never ask the hard questions.
Yes it’s always just sound bites. You only find out how things really are in law courts (Usually).
Dude...It's their product they should be able to do what they want with it. Stopping competitors? any company can compete, there is just nobody except Google trying. They can even just shut it down if they want.
Do you seriously think any incoming CEO is going to change it? That would be a death knell to being one of the top valued corporations on the stock market.
It would be foolish of any new CEO to change direction on privacy and I presume anyone likely to become CEO is already onboard with selling the privacy angle.
But there’s an outside chance they could get a CEO who just says screw it, lets monetise the hell out of user data and us consumers would have very little we could do about it since there is no other company providing this competitive advantage.
I understand some view app store security as binary and use that as an argument to discredit Apple. Like throwing the baby out with the bath water. However, I didn't think the masses knew that by having apple reviewing an app certifies them as 100% safe in absolute sense. I don't think that was ever the case. (At least safe enough to give the app your credentials to your life savings without a second thought)
Sideloading is OK on a mac (or PC) and not on an iPhone. Go figure.
Dollars come first....we are a capitalist country.....make all the money you can, if you can't then start screaming communism, communism, communism.
I think all of these Apple app wrote haters should ll get together and start a company to make a competing product/OS and run it how they all feel it should be run....or, work a deal with Epic/Tencent, I'm sure they are capable of creating and OS....Unreal Engine 5, is some impressive software. They have so much money, they cn create their own app store.
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I think history will show us that apple was on the right side of this argument.