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The main problem with Apple's App Store is that it is a closed monopoly. It is the only way to install software on an iPhone without jailbraking it, and if you

The main problem with Apple's App Store is that it is a closed monopoly. It is the only way to install software on an iPhone without jailbraking it, and if you do jailbreak it, then there might be other apps that refuse to work. In Denmark we have a national login system (NemID), and if you got a Jailbroken iPhone, then you will not be able to use the (required) two-factor code-generation app, and then you will not be able to buy stuff online via credit card. I had a similar problem recently, as there was no alternative authentication option if the app did not work. Basically it just showed a popup telling me I had to use the app. That is NOT okay. If Apple opened up their platform more, then more power would be in the users hands, and Apple would not be able to abuse their power to shut out apps or require huge developer-fees and percentages of app-developers sales. This current situation is more like daylight robbery. Privacy is really a separate issue, and surely one that has more nuances to it. Flat out blocking tracking is not the right path forward just because it is popular.

marcinzm 6y ago
>In Denmark we have a national login system (NemID), and if you got a Jailbroken iPhone, then you will not be able to use the (required) two-factor code-generation app, and then you will not be able to buy stuff online via credit card. I had a similar problem recently, as there was no alternative authentication option if the app did not work. Basically it just showed a popup telling me I had to use the app. That is NOT okay. That doesn't seem an Apple issue but rather the maker of the app decided to add a check against jailbroken phones.
rektide 6y ago
> The main problem with Apple's App Store is that it is a closed monopoly. It is the only way to install software on an iPhone without jailbraking it, and if you do jailbreak it, then there might be other apps that refuse to work. Android does allow side-loading of apps, but only with the typical very very very limited very dumb privileges. If you want to do anything at all beyond what the OS is willing to bless, you need to root your phone. And as soon as you do that, you are back into the iphone/jailbreak nightmare hell world. As soon as you root your phone, you no longer pass Android SafetyNet checks[1] hardwired on the device, and can no longer use a wide variety of payment apps & secure systems. Netflix. Google Pay. Samsung Pay. There's been some cat & mouse games[2], some wins for the rebellion/resistance, but the intent is clear as a bell: this is Google's device, this is the developer's device, and you the user are not entitled to privileges on your device. Anything that violates the app developer's sense of security is unacceptable in the New Computing Order (NCO). What a hell-hole piss-pot back-water reality of computing we've landed in. Bicycles of the Mind are such a far off out of reach intellectual froof-y ideal compared to this all-spectrum anti-us consumerization-assimilation warfare. Apple is not the only one: it's every (big) company, every organization, fighting actively to deny us anything more than superficial access to the devices we carry with us 24/7. Give us root, you god-forsaken infernal beasts! #IFightForTheUser. Make our machines ours again. [1] https://developer.android.com/training/safetynet https://developer.android.com/training/safetynet [2] https://www.androidpolice.com/2020/03/11/safetynet-improvements-kill-magisk-hide/ https://www.androidpolice.com/2020/03/11/safetynet-improveme...

marcinzm 6y ago

>In Denmark we have a national login system (NemID), and if you got a Jailbroken iPhone, then you will not be able to use the (required) two-factor code-generation app, and then you will not be able to buy stuff online via credit card. I had a similar problem recently, as there was no alternative authentication option if the app did not work. Basically it just showed a popup telling me I had to use the app. That is NOT okay. That doesn't seem an Apple issue but rather the maker of the app decided to add a check against jailbroken phones.

rektide 6y ago

> The main problem with Apple's App Store is that it is a closed monopoly. It is the only way to install software on an iPhone without jailbraking it, and if you do jailbreak it, then there might be other apps that refuse to work. Android does allow side-loading of apps, but only with the typical very very very limited very dumb privileges. If you want to do anything at all beyond what the OS is willing to bless, you need to root your phone. And as soon as you do that, you are back into the iphone/jailbreak nightmare hell world. As soon as you root your phone, you no longer pass Android SafetyNet checks[1] hardwired on the device, and can no longer use a wide variety of payment apps & secure systems. Netflix. Google Pay. Samsung Pay. There's been some cat & mouse games[2], some wins for the rebellion/resistance, but the intent is clear as a bell: this is Google's device, this is the developer's device, and you the user are not entitled to privileges on your device. Anything that violates the app developer's sense of security is unacceptable in the New Computing Order (NCO). What a hell-hole piss-pot back-water reality of computing we've landed in. Bicycles of the Mind are such a far off out of reach intellectual froof-y ideal compared to this all-spectrum anti-us consumerization-assimilation warfare. Apple is not the only one: it's every (big) company, every organization, fighting actively to deny us anything more than superficial access to the devices we carry with us 24/7. Give us root, you god-forsaken infernal beasts! #IFightForTheUser. Make our machines ours again. [1] https://developer.android.com/training/safetynet https://developer.android.com/training/safetynet [2] https://www.androidpolice.com/2020/03/11/safetynet-improvements-kill-magisk-hide/ https://www.androidpolice.com/2020/03/11/safetynet-improveme...