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The removing of the app is not the problem. Apple requires signed apps before they can be installed. They retain the right to remove apps specifically for secur
by Tagbert 3y ago
The removing of the app is not the problem. Apple requires signed apps before they can be installed. They retain the right to remove apps specifically for security violations.
This does not give them the right to block apps based on content or similar factors. You could publish a porn app that Apple would normally disallow. In this program Apple would not try to prevent that from being installed. If it started stealing user credentials, then their security provisions would come into play and the app would be removed.
- asadotzler 3y agoThis absolutely gives them the ability (they have all the rights here, and publishers and users have none -- they only need abilities) so your entire line of argument is rendered silly and moot. What they can do they can do and no amount of fanboy defense changes that. Apple has given itself the ability (rights are immaterial, you have none) to do this, and that's that.
- Jcowell 3y agoYou’re arguing ability when they are only taking about rights
- Tagbert 3y agoWe all have abilities. Some of those abilities are anti-social and destructive. We use society, laws, regulations to set bounds on those abilities. Under these new regulations, it is clear that Apple would not be allowed to remove apps arbitrarily. That is why Apple is clarifying the conditions under which it might. You can through silly terms like “fanboy” around all you like but that is not the basis of why I said that Apple would not block apps outside the the reasons that they stated. Edit: BTW - I’m not saying that I like all of the rules that Apple has proposed for handling alternate apps stores. Some of those rules are almost spiteful. They are clearly following the letter of the regulation more than the spirit and are stacking the deck in their favor.