The mere notion of BitTorrent ever making it onto the App Store made me laugh so hard I got a headache. Thanks.
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Sideloading Apps Would 'Break' the Security and Privacy of iPhone, Says Tim Cook
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Well, allowing me to side load Apps does not effect you. You can still limit yourself to App Store Apps and Apple's nanny rules without sacrificing any security. There is no need to thrust that loss of freedom on me.
There’s no loss of freedom, you already cannot side load apps.
Of course it does, otherwise no one would care. Apps on the App Store now must comply to Apple's privacy rules (for example) and be updated to support certain iOS features (different screen sizes, 64-bits). If developers use alternative app stores to circumvent this (an they absolutely would) and no longer use Apple's App Store, we as users would lose the option of running a privacy-vetted app and would be forced to use the non-vetted version. I couldn't care less if you install whatever crap you want on your phone, but I don't want to be forced to move to a worse version of the apps I'm already using because big developers move to alternative-store apps.
If for TC was a question of security and privacy the App Store service would be marketed as a Cloud service, at Cloud service prices to developers, where developers would pay for file storage, distribution as well as review procrss of that is what they need. Not sharing 30% of their revenue, mush less for what they sell in app that does not cross their servers and services in anyway.
This is to say that TC is totally diverting the issue. As far as I see almost 100% of the complaints regarding the policy, its solution does not necessarily imply the ability to side install apps.
Apple as all the best solutions on their hand for everyone ... if they put aside the goal of having a 70B business charging for products and services not directly sold by them, otherwise sustained on a technicality enforced by policy only.
This is to say that TC is totally diverting the issue. As far as I see almost 100% of the complaints regarding the policy, its solution does not necessarily imply the ability to side install apps.
Apple as all the best solutions on their hand for everyone ... if they put aside the goal of having a 70B business charging for products and services not directly sold by them, otherwise sustained on a technicality enforced by policy only.
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You think that it is in my own interest to have an ecosystem of developers not bothering to update their apps to support some iOS features* or having their privacy policy checked?
*This is very common in government issued apps. Budget is made for an app development but not for its maintenance, and is only updated when an OS version breaks it or is no longer accepted in the App Store due to not being updated to match newer iOS features.
It's both in the sense that it is 99% about control and revenue, and 1% about security, sure.
Because consumers have two choices. Macs, that allow side loading but which suffer from malware, and iOS devices that do not.
Why should consumers have no choice but to have devices that are susceptible to malware?
You are not informed. There are a lot more fundamental concerns with security and privacy than just Bitcoin scams being let through here and there.
The real question is what right do you have to regulate them in the first place? All forms of corporate regulation are just mob mentality expressed. You create a system where to be successful you need to create something valuable from the ground up, and when that thing becomes successful, you begin to act entitled to it, so much so that you try to regulate the owner of the property as if they don't own it...you take honorary possession of it.
No direct way to side load app >> Less users try to side load app >> Less technical problem happens with phone >> Less people report unnecessarily problems (power-users know what are they doing but normal-users will likely to be) >> Less complicate things to support >> Users kinda a happy inside the garden.
Then why is "side loading" Mac apps perfectly fine and acceptable as it has always been?
I don’t think you understand what sideloading is. There is no vetting. A user can download any installable and run it themselves as admin. There is no API. There is no formal programmatic and human vetting.
Perhaps because there's a larger market of iOS customers vs. Mac customers and a lot of the iOS customers aren't necessarily Mac users. Often they are PC people who do a lot of tweaking and install illegal software. Apple probably doesn't want to be blamed for someone's iPhone having troubles because let's be real about it nobody will admit the sideloaded app caused the problem and they also won't admit they sideloaded anything. They'll quickly remove the app after the damage has been done.
How long do we have to wait? We've had the App Store for almost 13 years. It is just as annoying and obstructive and prohibitive today as it was then.
The only reason it is allowed on the Mac is because that's how it started. Oh and because you couldn't do half the things a Mac can do without it. There isn't a single work related tool on my Mac that came from the App Store.
Because it has been grandfathered in from decades past and it’s probably not practical to reverse that. I’m sure Apple would do it if they could. And the Mac use case is very different from mobile.
If we lived in an anarchist system, regulations wouldn't apply to anyone or anything. We don't live under such a system. My sense is most of the people arguing on behalf of little old Apple aren't anarchists at all, but rather enjoy government regulation, just not of their favorite company.
Well the third choice is to keep doing what they're doing because no one has a any right to stop them.
So glad this is the first and top voted comment. And strange there are no down vote. Because normally whenever there is a suggestion for lower commission, you have ( cough ) people coming in and tell you if you dont like it Get Out!
- No "objectionable content" rejections : That is the whole point of my objection. They are increasingly lefty, nanny state. And exactly as you said, as long as it is legal, if there are objection. Let the court decide.
- Standardized commission of 10% : I have an even better solution. Break App Store into App and Game Store. Keep the Game Store at 30% commission, which represent ~80% of all current App Store spending. And standardised App Store on 10%, continue to add value to App Store and Developers. Things like Search and other features from App Store are pathetic. Make the 10%, which increase processing fees, and all sort of handling well worth the money rather than making developer felt it is rent seeking.
Then apparently Mac OS is a cess pool of malware and privacy violating spy apps?