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There will be side-effects of well-intentioned, feel-good policies of supporting multiple app stores: - Malware including ransomware, password theft, and ident

There will be side-effects of well-intentioned, feel-good policies of supporting multiple app stores: - Malware including ransomware, password theft, and identity theft - Lookalike, counterfeit apps - Software piracy - Lowering of curation standards by Apple Certain other software bits cannot be open sourced, including specific cryptographic keys. There is a great deal of Darwin/XNU that is already FOSS. What would be helpful for r2r would be the availability of schematics and Apple-proprietary custom variants of third-party chips. Certainly, T prefix chips can't be too freely shared without weakening the integrity of the security baked into Apple products (no pie puns intended).

seanmcdirmid 3y ago
Isn't that just evening the playing field with non-Apple phones? Isn't that what the EU is trying to accomplish?
Apocryphon 3y ago
> - Lookalike, counterfeit apps - Lowering of curation standards by Apple That has already been happening on the official App Store! Kosta Eleftheriou has done a ton of scholarship into the proliferation of bad apps. (Not to mention, poor UX such as archaic search.) People imagine multiple app stores on iOS would be shady data-hungry operations from the likes of Meta or Google. But opening things up would just as likely, and perhaps more so, foster curated, transparent app stores such as an iOS equivalent to F-Droid.