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Personally I think sideloading on personal computing devices like smartphones should be mandated by law, and then the big brains at Apple can figure out how to
by howinteresting 5y ago
Personally I think sideloading on personal computing devices like smartphones should be mandated by law, and then the big brains at Apple can figure out how to make it secure.
- reaperducer 5y agoWhile I don't ordinarily approve of whipping out the law hammer to solve every problem, this does provide a little food for thought. Instead of a gub'mint telling Apple "OK, you have to let there be an app store free-for-all right now" and Apple watching its work descend into chaos overnight, there could be a middle ground: "OK, you have to let there be an app store free-for-all in five years." That could give Apple a good amount of time (and it already has the money) to harden iOS as much as it can. (I'm only half-way through reading the Apple document, so maybe this is addressed later.)
- howinteresting 5y agoPerhaps it might mean Apple has to slow down feature development, beef up its sandboxing, switch to memory safe languages like Swift, or do more to entice developers to its app store. All of these would be good outcomes. I'm fine with giving Apple a bit of a lead time here, but ultimately people should have the right to do whatever they want on their own personal computing devices.