What all these wistfulness for an earlier, simpler era of computing very thoroughly fails to address every time is the real world implications of allowing arbit

What all these wistfulness for an earlier, simpler era of computing very thoroughly fails to address every time is the real world implications of allowing arbitrary code execution on mobile devices that are always connected to the internet. The average HN software engineer is not the target. Joe Q. Public who has better things to do than to learn dot files and ACLs and so needs to be protected by thoughtful App Store policies.