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Even if Apple allows people to install apps on their phone bypassing the official app store, noone is forcing you to do it on your phone. Your phone's security
by Tepix 6y ago
Even if Apple allows people to install apps on their phone bypassing the official app store, noone is forcing you to do it on your phone.
Your phone's security will not be compromised by adding an extra optional feature.
- lolsal 6y agoYou're right, but that fundamentally changes how I look at apps on my iPhone and my device or the ecosystem as a whole. Right now, any app icon I see on my phone, or any Apple device, I implicitly trust, because I have outsourced my trust to a corporation. This does not mean there are not scummy/weaselly apps out there (tiktok/Facebook/etc. for example). Like root certificates, you have to trust someone, at some point. I am choosing to trust Apple. By allowing side-loading apps, that is eroded, even if the tiniest bit.
- manigandham 6y agoHow is it eroded at all if you don't install or use those apps? What changes?