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I totally agree with this concern as things stand. But it's also been apparent that relying on code auditing wasn't going to be sustainable long term. The real
by mindslight 4y ago
I totally agree with this concern as things stand.
But it's also been apparent that relying on code auditing wasn't going to be sustainable long term. The real answer is for Apple to beef up their sandboxing to prevent things like cross app tracking, coercing permissions from users, etc - independent of the app store review process or policies.
This is what the Libre Android distributions (eg GrapheneOS, CalyxOS) have been (slowly) converging on.
- crazygringo 4y ago> But it's also been apparent that relying on code auditing wasn't going to be sustainable long term. Why not? It seemed to be going fine. As the number of apps increases, so does get money the App Store receives. I don't see anything inherently unsustainable in it at all.
- mindslight 4y agoFor the same reason that all central planning ends up being unwieldy - the world is complex. It's not the work of doing the reviewing itself that is unsustainable, but rather crafting some singular policy that can reject all "bad" while allowing all "good", compounded by having to work with governments/corporations/etc that want increasingly fine-grained censorship.