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What frightens me is that nearly all common mobile devices - that is android with google play services, or iOS - could do the same, technically speaking.
by pmlnr 8y ago
What frightens me is that nearly all common mobile devices - that is android with google play services, or iOS - could do the same, technically speaking.
- mc32 8y agoThey do already. The difference is there it’s a government watchdog, over here it’s private companies, ToSs and public pressure as change mechanism.
- ajross 8y agoThey already do, c.f. the "Apple banned my app" genre of blog post. In most cases, probably even this one in China, the apps are legitimately bad and users see aggregate benefit. Obviously the important difference is that in this case it's a government agency and not a private company. With Android at least, it remains the case that a (reasonably adept) user can side-load any app she wants.