Apple has no excuse not to allow sideloading. None except profits for Apple. It's anti-consumer, and anti-right-to-repair. >> So if you were on the committee t

Apple has no excuse not to allow sideloading. None except profits for Apple. It's anti-consumer, and anti-right-to-repair. >> So if you were on the committee tomorrow and got to ask a question of the CEOs, what question would you want to ask? Maybe start with what you would ask Tim Cook if you had the chance. > The thing I would want to drill into is the question of Apple's big excuse. > The big excuse Apple uses for why they lock everything down and demand everybody uses their services is that they're protecting user security. I think tearing that apart is the most critical part of the argument to open up platforms. iOS devices are secure because Apple has the best operating system kernel team in the world. They built the most secure operating system you can buy, and they have the best security layer, the permissions-based security that enables users to decide whether an app can access your camera or your microphones. > I think really drilling into and establishing that Apple's decisions are just business policies motivated by money and are not security decisions is essential. Apple can't say that "it's insecure if Fortnite accepts payments because it'll steal your credit card!" They can't say that it's OK for Nike to take your payment directly, but Epic can't because they're making a game and Nike is making a physical product. > I think teasing out the contradictions in Apple's public position versus the actual technical truth is really critical. As a programmer, nothing frustrates me more than seeing bad policy attributed to technical necessity when it's very clearly not. >> What would you ask Sundar Pichai? > Oh, I'd ask him, "Hey buddy, why don't you open the platform up completely?" Android is a semi-open platform. If it were an open platform, it'd be the best platform in the world if you could install apps without obstruction from third-party sources, if other stores could really compete with the same quality of Google Play. Why not just go all the way?