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Like Apple installing some U2 album on your iPhone?
by asjo 9y ago
Like Apple installing some U2 album on your iPhone?
- magoon 9y agoNot dissimilar, but I wouldn't put them in the same league. U2 was added as a purchased album to iTunes accounts.
- evilduck 9y agoRight, unless you had auto-download of purchases explicitly enabled, nothing was pushed onto phones. And with the backlash it received, I doubt they'll ever do that again (they even stopped their 12 days of Christmas giveaways).
- evilduck 9y agoRight, unless you had auto-download of purchases explicitly enabled, nothing was pushed onto phones. And with the backlash it received, I doubt they'll ever do that again (they even stopped their 12 days of Christmas giveaways).
- gls2ro 9y agoI think the main difference (and I'm not saying Apple cannot do the same maybe at some point in the future) is between an app is downloading something inside that app and the OS is installing an app. A lot of app are connecting in the background to servers and downloading data without always asking permission. But in general the OS should not install something without asking explicitly.
- peteretep 9y agoNon-executable content is really quite different from my perspective.
- pricechild 9y agoDefining "non-executable" is then an interesting exercise... From https://scarybeastsecurity.blogspot.co.uk/2016/12/redux-compromising-linux-using-snes.html https://scarybeastsecurity.blogspot.co.uk/2016/12/redux-comp... > You’ve likely guessed it by now, but the Linux gstreamer media playback framework supports playback of SNES music files by…. emulating the SNES CPU and audio processor, courtesy of Game Music Emu. How cool is that?