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What about following counter-example. There're many tiny apps that are next-to-required. E.g. mass transit tickets, paying for parking, banking apps. With the w
by mantas 3y ago
What about following counter-example. There're many tiny apps that are next-to-required. E.g. mass transit tickets, paying for parking, banking apps. With the walled garden, they've to stick to at least some standards. Now if we open up the platform, what stops them from making shitty malware-ridden apps offered on scammy 3rd party stores? I won't move my mortgage to another bank because my bank app now requires me to install a weird-looking altstore... Or would I?
- fsflover 3y agoWhere are the malware-ridden apps in F-Droid? In Linux repositories? Why those next-to-required apps can't be provided as web apps? > With the walled garden, they've to stick to at least some standards. This is a bad incentive to obey the standards. And I don't see how it prevents from developing a malware obeying those standards, too.
- sbuk 3y agoTraditional "linux repositories" are kind of walled gardens though. I mean, the software is vetted and controlled by the bistro's maintainer, is it not? Isn't it also true that sensible advice is to not add repo's from unknown sources?
- nerdix 3y agoBut you can add other repos or install software through other means so it is not a walled garden.
- wruza 3y agoMy buddy had to install an (android) app for his boiler control few years ago and the first thing it did was to demand access to AB and SMS and later sent an actual SMS to an unknown number. This boiler company doesn’t even want to screw you directly, they just slap a partner library on top of their app that does what a third party decides to. It wasn’t F-Droid, but that’s because PlayStore already allows that behavior. AppStore doesn’t.
- fsflover 3y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28677950 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28677950 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30211038 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30211038