Right up until something bad happens and people (and the press) blame Apple regardless.
It’s not facts that matter, but perception.
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Tim Cook Delivers Speech Emphasizing Apple's Opposition to Sideloading
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Right up until something bad happens and people (and the press) blame Apple regardless.
It’s not facts that matter, but perception.
Why would they? Apple, as a public company, have a responsibility to make money. Tim allows the company to do that.
I have said it before, if they are forced to allow Sideloading they should be able to enforce the App being on Apple's App Store too. Just like my stance for "right to repair", as long as I can get with Apple and have them fix it you can do whatever you want with your device. Same concept here, as long as I can keep my walled garden and be GUARANTEED (by Apple policy) that every and ALL apps will ALSO be on the Apple App Store, I have no issue with this. But this won't happen. Therefore, some apps will require sideloading because it is exclusive on the Epic App Store for example.
And you think any other public company would do things out of the goodness of their hearts? Companies purely exist for money. Its frustrating hearing non-stop about greed in these posts. Been hearing it 13 years ago. I hear it now. Microsoft is greedy! Adobe is greedy! ALL companies are greedy!
Hey man... Based on your original post, it seems that you’re able to see the future to a humorous degree and know exactly what would happen, so maybe arguing with you is pointless.
This isn’t a hot issue because Apple’s profits are at risk. It’s a hot issue because a small but noteworthy subset of users and devs want to have more control over their expensive devices which they spend more time on than any other device — a totally reasonable ask — and Apple is going to federal courts arguing that this is solely about protecting Users, which is nonsense. There ARE ways of protecting Users AND allowing sideloading, but not in a way that favors Apple financially. Boo hoo.
Sideloading has been an option on Android since the start. Serious question: What major Android Devs/Apps (Epic aside) are distributed outside of the Play Store? You make is seem like Devs will bail on the App Store in droves to make another 15 cents per app sold, and Users will be happy to do so, because?????
Any normal-ass developer would shrivel up and die if they tried to release a sideloaded app which could exist on the Play or App Store. Are any Android Devs thriving this way? How are you so confident that your apocalyptic sideloading fantasy will come to fruition?
Interesting you assume any solution would be tamper-proof. I don't assume, it is known that if a solution to bypass a control exists, it will be exploited.
Agreed on the "OMD word is ending".
Yeah sure, ops a bug, we are so sorry, next tine we spy better on you.
Apple apologizes for listening to Siri conversations
Apple on Wednesday apologized for listening to Siri requests and said it will instead ask users to opt in to the program, which helps it improve Siri, when it resumes it later this fall.
You have to gain root access to install unauthorized apps. There is no way around it. Do you recall ZiPhone and BootNeuter? Same concept.
A normal developer won't pass it, but someone looking to gain access to certain areas of the OS will. They could make a bigger payout that way than through Apple.
Think of it as selling an exploit that can expose data to others.
It's not about the user controlling the root. It's about what an app with malicious intent controlling the root does. Once a malicious app has root access, there is little you can do to stem the flow of data from your device if the app so wishes.
The premise here is not about tech knowledgeable people, but about the average person that can find it hard to discern in a sea of "knowledge" and scams. People will fall for bogus apps, just like they fall for financial scams or phishing attempts.
At least right now, that failure mode is not present on an iPhone.
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Great tweet -- don't buy into Apple attempts to reframe things in their favor.
That is why businesses are suffering. Classic desktop and server method is not good for security. I dealt with a client that got their entire server encrypted due to ONE EMAIL. And it spread across network drives and their own computer. Leading to the entire business shutting down for a day while we restored terabytes of data from a backup. It happens a lot. And sometimes you are infected/spied without noticing it.
LockBit ransomware gang lurked in a U.S. gov network for months
Threat analysts have found evidence of malicious actors using the LockBit ransomware strain lingering in the network of a regional U.S. government agency for at least five months.
I will respond as I was editing my post earlier. But not everyone knows the way. Moreover, not everyone can follow a set of instructions in case of said issues due to a malicious app. The average person simply won't and can't. More tech knowledgeable people can and might (depending on complexity). But it's a can of worms it is best left unopened.
Disagree. Strongly disagree. WTF MR? You've disabled/removed the disagree option?
Agreed, I mentioned this before and it was ignored. Apple has several times refused to create special doors into the OS itself for any government.
Sorted? Really....?
No.
The "bad actors", hell let's just name them. Facebook. Those guys will remove their apps from the App Store and make their apps available on some other "freedom app store" which will have ZERO privacy protection and a very long legal Ts&Cs which the user has to agree to allowing all sorts abuses of privacy and personal data.
Yeah you could just not install their apps which is what I intend to do but it'll happen.
Apple looks after the masses who aren't tech savvy and switched on about these things (my mother and her sister come immediately to mind). They are the ones that naively do what ever the screen tells them to do.
It's the tech savvy minority who want sideloading. What for, I really don't know, but they feel it is a right they must have and to hell with everyone else.
That you know about..
Do you honestly believe Apple doesn't work with law enforcement and just keep quiet about it?
Corporations telling the government to pound sand is never a strategy that works over the long term.
THANK YOU! I for one, did not mind the core CSAM idea. My concern was the neural/AI tracking changes of the images and how it could cause some false positives. I already deal with CSAM on some services that scan for it. And like you said, how would it make Apple profit? Apple is between a rock and a hard place on this one. If they don't do something, they will become the Safe Haven for CSAM content.
Why are they in the Google Play store and not forcing users to sideload and do all the scary things you mention?
Sounds like they had an incompetent administrator or didn’t invest into their infrastructure. No backup, no mercy.That is why businesses are suffering. Classic desktop and server method is not good for security. I dealt with a client that got their entire server encrypted due to ONE EMAIL. And it spread across network drives and their own computer. Leading to the entire business shutting down for a day while we restored terabytes of data from a backup. It happens a lot. And sometimes you are infected/spied without noticing it.
LockBit ransomware gang lurked in a U.S. gov network for months
Threat analysts have found evidence of malicious actors using the LockBit ransomware strain lingering in the network of a regional U.S. government agency for at least five months.www.bleepingcomputer.com
It’s usually the outcome of lazyness, and user accounts with to much access rights and no honeypots nor real-time file and dir access monitoring.
I know, happens all the time, but does not justify anticompetitive practices and vendor lock-in.
This is a serious spin on a feature. That is like saying hiring more staff at a hospital to take care of more patients is PURELY for profit - yeah the fact that you can help MORE patients means nothing then?