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I expected the worst when reading the headline but this is great news. If the EU forces Apple to allow side-loading apps I might actually buy an Apple smartpho

I expected the worst when reading the headline but this is great news. If the EU forces Apple to allow side-loading apps I might actually buy an Apple smartphone.

mistersquid 5y ago
> If the EU forces Apple to allow side-loading apps I might actually buy an Apple smartphone. This will result in different phones for different markets. For example, iPhone in Japan must play a sound when the camera takes a picture. This is not true of iPhones sold in the US. iPhones in some markets also are not allowed to have active 5G modems while, obviously, iPhones in the US are. I think splitting the market will be fine. However, I suspect many side-loading-capable iPhones are going to have many more security problems and privacy breaches. We’ll have to wait and see.
- BiteCode_dev 5y ago
  > I think splitting the market will be fine. However, I suspect many side-loading-capable iPhones are going to have many more security problems and privacy breaches. Security and flexibility are always at odd with each other. But for side loading, I'm not really worried. Users that are susceptible to security problems don't have the technical know-how to even do something as simple as sideloading. Those who are technical enough usually are not the entry point for malware.
  - srtjstjsj 5y ago
    This is not true. Thanks to friendly YouTube and web tutorials, non- technical users are great at hacking themselves: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-XSS https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-XSS
  - spideymans 5y ago
    >Users that are susceptible to security problems don't have the technical know-how to even do something as simple as sideloading. Those who are technical enough usually are not the entry point for malware. If sideloading is made too difficult for average users, it would totally negate the anti-trust (competitive) benefits of forcing the platform open in the first place. Either governments make sideloading easy and approachable to the masses, and accept the UX/security/privacy risks involved, or they make it cumbersome, and accept the continuation of the App Store monopoly.

I expected the worst when reading the headline but this is great news. If the EU forces Apple to allow side-loading apps I might actually buy an Apple smartphone.

mistersquid 5y ago

> If the EU forces Apple to allow side-loading apps I might actually buy an Apple smartphone. This will result in different phones for different markets. For example, iPhone in Japan must play a sound when the camera takes a picture. This is not true of iPhones sold in the US. iPhones in some markets also are not allowed to have active 5G modems while, obviously, iPhones in the US are. I think splitting the market will be fine. However, I suspect many side-loading-capable iPhones are going to have many more security problems and privacy breaches. We’ll have to wait and see.

BiteCode_dev 5y ago
> I think splitting the market will be fine. However, I suspect many side-loading-capable iPhones are going to have many more security problems and privacy breaches. Security and flexibility are always at odd with each other. But for side loading, I'm not really worried. Users that are susceptible to security problems don't have the technical know-how to even do something as simple as sideloading. Those who are technical enough usually are not the entry point for malware.
- srtjstjsj 5y ago
  This is not true. Thanks to friendly YouTube and web tutorials, non- technical users are great at hacking themselves: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-XSS https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-XSS
- spideymans 5y ago
  >Users that are susceptible to security problems don't have the technical know-how to even do something as simple as sideloading. Those who are technical enough usually are not the entry point for malware. If sideloading is made too difficult for average users, it would totally negate the anti-trust (competitive) benefits of forcing the platform open in the first place. Either governments make sideloading easy and approachable to the masses, and accept the UX/security/privacy risks involved, or they make it cumbersome, and accept the continuation of the App Store monopoly.