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Developers freedom always seems to boil down to messing with me. HP wants to install some drivers for its USB 3 hub, what could go wrong? Some game wants to ins
by danielscrubs 6y ago
Developers freedom always seems to boil down to messing with me. HP wants to install some drivers for its USB 3 hub, what could go wrong? Some game wants to install DRM protection what could go wrong? Chrome wants to turn on webcam support, what could go wrong?
There is no responsibility in the software world, and that’s totally fine, Linux is nice! But even as a developer... I don’t trust us nor our incitements. If Apple wants to be a cop that’s fine by me, the results speak for themselves.
No Whatsapp you can’t have my contacts, go away! ;)
- _ph_ 6y agoDevelopers freedom doesn't automatically mean full "root" access to the device for any app. That indeed is something, I wouldn't like. Applications are sandboxed, and Apple should just defend those sandboxes. So Whatsapp cannot access your contacts unless the system allows it to, after asking the user. An App cannot just install printer drivers either. But inside that guarded sandbox, Apps should be basically free to do. Apple shouldn't be able to ban an App because they don't want to have a development environment in it.
- danielscrubs 6y agoYeah, but then the developers start to require that the users give access, and when the users are fragmented they are weak. A good example of this is WeChat that will require that the users give the contacts on Android but will not require it in iOS because Apple didn’t allow those shenanigans.
- llampx 6y agoSomehow even so our phones are much better at spying on us than computers, so this security theater is broken.