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>You would likely get more malware and more app hesitancy. More malware, possibly, though android has plenty of that even with the play store. But, app hesitan

>You would likely get more malware and more app hesitancy. More malware, possibly, though android has plenty of that even with the play store. But, app hesitancy, maybe from a small subset of people, but i feel like those same people already show app hesitancy. Only from my own experience, but i treat apps from the app stores about the same as i do random apps from the internet and do the same thing to verify in both situations, look at reviews and information about the app and make my judgement based on those. It's the same either way. All app stores do in my mind is aggregate reviews to one place, whether it's the play store, the apple store or the steam store, etc. I trust each of them about as much as something such as apk mirror, in all cases, i'm relying on the opinions and information provided by others that have used the app, if no such information is available, i consider it suspect and avoid. The method acquire an app isn't what invokes trust, it's other user verification, no matter whether that app came from a store, a repo, a random website or any other method software can be delivered and it always has been, since the days of floppies.

graeme 6y ago
I’m less familiar with android, but on the ios side there are very real limits to what an app can do, even if it has malicious intent. And app review greatly limits apps with malicious intent. ‘ You still need to exercise caution with permissions, but an individual app itself has pretty strict limits. Most of the security flaws are tied to the OS itself.
- grawprog 6y ago
  >Most of the security flaws are tied to the OS itself. Which was the point of my original comment, that phone OS's provide the illusion of being more secure, while being about as secure as any other platform. From what I can tell, computers are about as secure as they've ever been, whatever the kind, which is, alright depending on the user. It's always been like that and still is. App stores and sandboxes haven't changed that.
  - dwighttk 6y ago
    Eh. Unless iOS exploits are uniquely tuned to be unnoticeable... I go home to help my parents with their Macs and am always removing crap, usually from their browsers. I haven’t yet had to remove crap from their iPhones/iPad. Is it 100% secure? No. Is the user experience that I desire available due to app stores and sandboxes? Yes.

graeme 6y ago

I’m less familiar with android, but on the ios side there are very real limits to what an app can do, even if it has malicious intent. And app review greatly limits apps with malicious intent. ‘ You still need to exercise caution with permissions, but an individual app itself has pretty strict limits. Most of the security flaws are tied to the OS itself.

grawprog 6y ago
>Most of the security flaws are tied to the OS itself. Which was the point of my original comment, that phone OS's provide the illusion of being more secure, while being about as secure as any other platform. From what I can tell, computers are about as secure as they've ever been, whatever the kind, which is, alright depending on the user. It's always been like that and still is. App stores and sandboxes haven't changed that.
- dwighttk 6y ago
  Eh. Unless iOS exploits are uniquely tuned to be unnoticeable... I go home to help my parents with their Macs and am always removing crap, usually from their browsers. I haven’t yet had to remove crap from their iPhones/iPad. Is it 100% secure? No. Is the user experience that I desire available due to app stores and sandboxes? Yes.