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I value Apple’s ‘tight fist’ around the iPhone app ecosystem and iOS in general. Android’s flexibility and Google’s focus on profiling consumers come with a ris
by BenFranklin100 3y ago
I value Apple’s ‘tight fist’ around the iPhone app ecosystem and iOS in general. Android’s flexibility and Google’s focus on profiling consumers come with a risk of security and at a cost of privacy respectively. With more and more personal information stored on phones, I’ll accept the walled garden. Apple is clearly pursuing a business model where consumers will be comfortable storing sensitive information such as medical records on one’s device. This will require a tight fist to keep bad actors away.
- EMIRELADERO 3y agoI'd much prefer that tight fist came from the law rather than a private corporation. The DMA is acceptable in Europe in part because they already have GDPR.
- postpawl 3y agoIt’s barely about security. It’s tough to do things like getting Firefox with an ad blocker on an iPhone.
- judge2020 3y agoThere are official ad blockers for Safari on the App Store. Firefox and Firefox Focus on iOS have (ad-based) tracking blockers, and Microsoft Edge on iOS also has an ad blocker.
- postpawl 3y agoYou’re talking about “strict tracking protection” that’s basically like browsing the web in incognito mode? That’s not really like Adblock origin. You know they only allow their own browser engine (WebKit) on iOS?
- kalleboo 3y agoApple has a set of APIs to allow third parties to write content (=ad/tracker) blocker extensions for Safari on iOS and distribute them on the App Store https://developer.apple.com/documentation/safariservices/creating_a_content_blocker/ https://developer.apple.com/documentation/safariservices/cre...
- CamperBob2 3y agoUser name most emphatically does not check out
- BenFranklin100 3y agoContrary to popular belief, even Franklin had the good sense not to fly a kite in a thunderstorm. There is essential liberty and there is stupidity.
- Brian_K_White 3y agoThere is nothing about the service of curation that requires it be done the particular way Apple does it. Their, and your, position is not supported by the given rationale.
- cfr2023 3y ago[flagged]
- Cupertino95014 3y ago.. and this from the guy who spends his days policing other people's posts.
- e40 3y agoI moved my 80 year old mother to iOS from Android because I was wasting too much time cleaning her phone after infections. She would install card games from the app store. So much malware. Since the move not a single infection.
- TheLoafOfBread 3y agoOr you just don't know, because there are no means on iOS to figure it out.
- e40 3y agoI doubt this. They would be tossing up ads, most likely. That's what the malware on Android does most of the time. She's not a target for nation states, after all.
- ujkiolp 3y ago[dead]
- nickm12 3y agoRight on. I would also like Apple to decide what books I'm able to read and what foods I can eat, because users having control of these things comes with a risk of security and cost of privacy. But seriously, if you want a walled garden, that's your right and other people having a choice does not infringe on it. You might actually like having alternate app stores—maybe one will be able to have even tighter controls on the privacy and security guarantees of the apps and avoid all the scams of the Apple app store: https://mjtsai.com/blog/tag/app-store-scams/ https://mjtsai.com/blog/tag/app-store-scams/