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> I suppose there are people just itching to install closed source mystery code from unaccountable entities. Unfortunately most of them are the friends and fami
by Apocryphon 4y ago
> I suppose there are people just itching to install closed source mystery code from unaccountable entities. Unfortunately most of them are the friends and family for whom I am first line technical support. I'm not looking forward to the change.
What is this hypothetical even. Your nontechnical friends and family are also eager to go out of the App Store (after having to enable developer mode, which might be as difficult and full of disclaimers and warnings as Apple chooses to slap into it), then root around shady third party app stores and mobile websites to download mystery code? So they're simultaneously tech illiterate and power users?
- jws 4y agoExactly! They run into "that other guy" who tells them "Oh, you should delete Safari and Mail and always use these other programs!" Then I get to help them with why "other browser's" keychain integration is rubbish and it displays blanks instead of web pages for some sites, and the content filters don't work right… and something weird is happening with the UI of "other mail". They will totally hand their phone over to "other guy" who will "do something, I don't remember what he did"… and they'll be subscribed to SketchyAppStore2023-HGTWRE.
- Apocryphon 4y agoWho is that other guy? A TikTok influencer? A YouTuber? Why are your friends and family handing over their phones to such shadowy figures on the street? Just tell them not to do that and be done with it.