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The key here is that it's "badware as defined by Apple and Google" though. Who watches the watchers?? If you're not advocating self reliance and self governanc
by wayneftw 6y ago
The key here is that it's "badware as defined by Apple and Google" though. Who watches the watchers??
If you're not advocating self reliance and self governance for people, you're not thinking long term. It's historically proven bad advice to willingly give all control to central powers.
> ...locked down systems are a somewhat effective way of keeping badware off of devices for the masses.
Developers are not the masses. The masses aren't installing the necessary tools and compiling their own programs and they never will. I'd settle for signing a written agreement with Apple and waiting a week for approval when I buy my phone so that I can actually control my own device.
I'm not arguing for letting me put my apps on everyones iPhones, just mine.
- orthecreedence 6y agoI agree with you. We have these amazing devices in our pockets, but we can only install things on them that are approved by enormous, faceless corporations whose incentives are often misaligned with our own well-being. I don't advocate removing all safety checks from phones, but making somebody jump through 15 hoops to install a non-corporate-approved app is stupid. Secondly, these companies stop a lot of badware, but they also act as gatekeepers to stop anti-establishmentware that may be for the public benefit at the detriment of the gatekeepers' stranglehold on power. In other words, these devices are systems of perpetuating the status-quo and safeguarding the profits of the ones making them. This in itself I'm not upset about: of course capital seeks to cement its own power. The real issue I have is how much potential is destroyed as collateral damage.