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I generally lean more toward “i like that iOS is locked down”, but this offline-app-sharing feature is one of the best arguments I’ve seen against that. That sa
by dwb 5y ago
I generally lean more toward “i like that iOS is locked down”, but this offline-app-sharing feature is one of the best arguments I’ve seen against that. That said, either I’d want peer-to-peer-shared apps to be signed by an entity I already highly trust, or that the sandbox containing the app was extremely solid (and preferably both of course).
- xfer 5y agoWell, if you don't trust this person you are downloading your app from, can you expect them to keep your messages private and secure? It already says when you would use such functionality("might be useful during internet shutdowns or natural disasters").
- sneak 5y agoApple (or the military that controls them) can revoke the certs for any app at any time, rendering it unlaunchable.
- myself248 5y agoF-Droid can also share APKs peer-to-peer. If both parties have F-Droid installed prior to the internet going away or being censored or whatever, other apps can be shared locally from a single device that has the app, to any other F-Droid user: https://f-droid.org/en/tutorials/swap/ https://f-droid.org/en/tutorials/swap/
- mike_d 5y ago> I’d want peer-to-peer-shared apps to be signed by an entity I already highly trust Airdrop is peer-to-peer file sharing built into the OS.
- dwb 5y agoI think you misunderstand. I’m talking about running apps shared over some untrusted (or partially trusted) medium, be that airdrop or whatever else.