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> Well, you just look at the PC ecosystem and you can see the nightmare. As somebody who's been looking and working in it for decades, I don't see it? To me t
by freeflight 6y ago
> Well, you just look at the PC ecosystem and you can see the nightmare.
As somebody who's been looking and working in it for decades, I don't see it?
To me the actual nightmare are closed walled gardens giving users a false sense of security about the software they offer on their services as supposedly all being "vetted".
And because by now the mobile space is the biggest target there is, malicious actors have shifted their attack vectors accordingly [0].
Even with these walled gardens in place, we've reached a point where the mobile app ecosystem is going trough its own phase of "You need this Norton/McAfee/blah product to keep your device secure/optimized!" just like the PC ecosystem did and still does.
As such the "gatekeepers" have effectively failed at gatekeeping anything that ain't explicit sexual content.
[0] https://www.zdnet.com/article/warning-over-hidden-apps-as-mobile-malware-attacks-increase-and-get-sneakier/ https://www.zdnet.com/article/warning-over-hidden-apps-as-mo...