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> It hasn't happened on Android There have been cases where authoritarian countries have forced people to sideload government-issued malware onto their Android

• GekkePrutser 4y ago
  Those countries can simply ban iphones if they want to. An OS can't solve all evil.
• noirscape 4y ago
  At the same time, Apple has also been doing the opposite by playing government censor for the CCP by removing VPN apps from the App Store in China. The knife here in terms of risking government overreach slices both ways, but in the case of Apple, they are in a much more vulnerable state for this sort of thing, since the CCP requires them to have meat shields (they need to have an office there) to continue operating in China. One is massively more beneficial on the whole for user freedom.
  • 4ad 4y ago
    This is true, on a global scale both options are bad. On the other hand, on a personal scale, the walled garden is much better option for me. It sucks that the Chinese are stuck between a rock and a hard place, but I am not, and I don't see how it's anyone's business to regulate my choice of technology. Just because the status quo is bad for some people, it doesn't means it should be made worse for everyone else.