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> Soon after we released iSH without apk, we found users who had figured out a way to get apk back using wget and were posting about this throughout the interne
by banana_giraffe 6y ago
> Soon after we released iSH without apk, we found users who had figured out a way to get apk back using wget and were posting about this throughout the internet. We suspect this was the reason why our rejection notice mentioned wget specifically
As the writer of one of the links in that sentence, I almost feel bad for making the post I did. Almost. If I hadn't someone else would have, clearly. I'm not some super hacker that discovered a hidden backdoor here.
It's frustrating, to say the least, that Apple won't let me do what I want with hardware I own. Yep, I know it's a long standing issue, and I'm not the first one to have this gripe, but this sort of nonsense is why I'm moving away from the Apple ecosystem. Once you piss off your power users, I wonder if the ecosystem will survive for long.
Then again, maybe I'm just having a "get off my lawn" moment, and Apple is on the right path. I'm not clairvoyant, I just want to have a nice Mosh client that can run a Python script to find an IP and open a firewall hole. But nope, that's evil scripting, I guess.
- Valkhyr 6y ago> Then again, maybe I'm just having a "get off my lawn" moment, and Apple is on the right path. No, you are not wrong, and they are not on the right path, except maybe for themselves. They have no right at all to tell people what they can and cannot do on devices that we paid for, and it's damned time that antitrust regulations somewhere forced them to allow sideloading and alternative app stores.
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- teruakohatu 6y agoWhy feel bad? It allowed me to run R, sandboxed, on my iPad. The world was a better place for a couple of weeks.