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Sideloading Bill Would Allow 'Malware, Scams and Data-Exploitation to Proliferate,' Says Apple
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LULz, that's not true. Look at the countless Android apps that have been found to steal personal data and are packed with other malware.
Easy to look at Android and see all the issues they have with malware in apps. For example, 23 apps expose personal data of more than 100 million Android users. It's pretty rampant.
23 Android Apps Expose Over 100,000,000 Users' Personal Data
Android apps leaked sensitive data of more than 100 million users, potentially making them a lucrative target for malicious actors.thehackernews.com
And how much do we really gain if this change happens? Makes it easier to private apps without a jailbreak? Many of the apps available in Cydia had malware and stole data too. I say that as someone who studied quite a few from their popular installers. Super simple to add in all kinds of badness because people don't question, they just want the app free.
From your article link:
"The findings come from an examination of 23 Android apps available in the official Google Play Store"
That has nothing to do with side loading.
Btw - there are scams that get into the official Apple App Store on iOS also
See post above - has nothing to do with this discussion about side loading
It's funny, I'm very pro-sideloading, but apps like Parler are the one thing that I thing that would make me back Apple on this.
Can't stand Parler and that eco-system -- but to me the solution isn't to have our devices locked down and our entire App choice ecosystem controlled by one entity.
Let them eat cake. Give the people what they think they want and let them suffer the consequences.
The reason Apple is fighting this is that the only actual consequences here would be to their monopoly on iOS 3rd party app revenue.
That's all this is about..
The day apple closes down their the.
Apple CSAM detection plans.
Then I might believe their posturing
Apple = Hyperbole
While the potential is there for anything I prefer people have the option to make their own decisions on such matters. A pop-up informing the user that it could or may lead to XYZ if installing an app outside of the official AppStore is all that is needed.
I guess to Apple it views it’s customers as idiots, geez wiz how are these people even given a credit card and lived life before being able to afford such devices.
Also Apple it’s not like apps with questionable processes have not passed through the AppStore review process ever ?
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You're right, but America apparently doesn't have any other safeguards against that sort of thing. It's really a band-aid fix to a different problem.
This will only hurt Apple in the long run though. most people will install an app from where ever and then blame Apple for their phone getting hacked, etc.
Truth. Any argument to the contrary, I would simply direct the individual to look MacOS. You can install whatever you want, and you don’t hear Apple complaining about a proliferation of malware on those devices.
Well if that is the case, which I don’t believe it is, then there will be no problem and users will be happy.
Hopefully not, that would mean apples talk about “security “ is jus security by obscurity. But then again we have had a number of security breaches by text…
While I’m all for Apple getting taken down a notch on this, I’m not really all that fussed about people attempting to violently overthrow our democracy being deplatformed. Luckily some of them will be spending at least a few years in prison and have larger problems than being deplatformed.
Guys..
Sideloading would STILL BE SANDBOXED
There is no mega crazy nefarious dystopia out there
You're creating a paranoia boogeyman scenario that doesn't exist.
You're eating up Apple PR nonsense, hook, line and sinker
If I could just leave sideloading disabled and go about my day, I wouldn’t care either way. But one would be naive not to expect a bunch of apps to be removed from the App Store and made available only through sideloading so they can circumvent iOS’s privacy restrictions. And in many cases one has to install these apps whether they like it or not for school or work.
Apple knows that 3rd Party AppStores will crop up and directly compete with the official hence it’s making hyperbole statements. If Amazon, Microsoft, Google or other offer an alternate iOS AppStore with a similar checks and balance system then what is the harm. Yes, I am aware that the Google PlayStore is riddled with questionable apps. I am using it as an example.
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This topic wouldn’t be a problem if iPhone isn’t dominates 50% of US smartphone market. Anyway, some people need to understand that even though iPhone and Android phones do the similar thing. They are created with different goal. iPhone is about integration. Android is about flexibility. Both has cons and pros. Consumers and enterprises would already know what type of device suits their needs. For exmaple, we have game consoles and gaming pc.
Why just Apple? Why not forcing gaming consoles to allow homebrew? Why not forcing side loading on anything electronics? US Congress is full of dum and dumber, and I don't want some old white people in one country deciding the experience if everyone around the world.
They are already getting around little speed bumps Apple throws up anyhow.
You think you've got a much more private experience than you do. I'm sorry to have to break it to you.
ChromeOS permits users to activate the option to install apps outside the PlayStore, the world did not end. Have a toggle in the settings app and leave it off by default, Apple has done its part. I hope this applies to AppleTV and the rest of the iOS ecosystem.