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The same reason it’s frowned upon to install random apps from the internet onto your PC. It’s a disaster waiting to happen.
by chaostheory 3y ago
The same reason it’s frowned upon to install random apps from the internet onto your PC. It’s a disaster waiting to happen.
- aaomidi 3y agoMobile OSes are not the same as windows or even Mac.
- chaostheory 3y agoYeah, their main differentiator is that they’re locked down.
- jackpeterfletch 3y agoand are most peoples 2fa device
- dns_snek 3y agoThey're locked down through technological measures such as sandboxing, which is designed to resist against malicious guests regardless of their origin and distribution method.
- sharikous 3y agoWith typical usage they contain more sensitive data and people are less aware of what happens in them than PCs. And mobile phones are perfect spying devices too. So the security question is more delicate
- alerighi 3y agoWell, not really. Usually people have all their personal data on their PC, rather than mobile phone. Maybe this is changing for young people, but on my parents hard drive (for example) there is 30+ years of all sort of personal data, documents of every kind, emails, documents, etc. Not counting all the password and access saved in the browser itself. If we talk about businesses, public administrations, hospitals basically everything is inside computers, including very sensitive data.
- yunwal 3y agoThe location data from your PC, for example, is not nearly as sensitive as a phone.
- leereeves 3y agoI've directly installed hundreds of apps on my PC. No disasters have happened.
- acdha 3y ago“I’ve driven many miles and never crashed. Why do I need to pay for seatbelts?” These are population level decisions which require you to think about mainstream use. For example, you probably have been safe because you know what to look for. This is not true of the general public and there are millions of people who _thought_ they were making a safe choice and only realized later that the polite person in the call center was not actually trying to help them, etc.
- leereeves 3y ago> “I’ve driven many miles and never crashed. Why do I need to pay for seatbelts?” Bad analogy. A better analogy is: I’ve driven many miles and never crashed. Why do I still need Toyota's permission to drive? I'm absolutely in favor of "seatbelts" for computers, but that means sandboxing, not censorship or rent seeking. It also means you can remove the "seatbelt" when you need to.
- acdha 3y agoI used seatbelts because every car safety measure you can think of has had someone complaining about having to pay a cost for something they’re too good a driver to need. Having apps notarized to enforce some basic legal & safety standards seems similar: it definitely costs more than zero, it definitely is a restriction on absolute freedom, but it helps prevent things which are statistically certain to keep happening otherwise.
- repelsteeltje 3y ago> Having apps notarized to enforce some basic legal & safety standards seems similar. Which things, exactly?
- devnullbrain 3y agoIt's not frowned upon, it's the normal way of doing anything non-trivial in Windows land. You don't get something from a repo, you go to the Foobinator Tools website to download BarApp Pro
- bee_rider 3y agoWindows is frowned upon. Laptop sales decline every year. People are giving up the idea of keyboards and big screens to avoid Windows laptops. Copying and monetizing the open source repo idea is the smartest thing smartphone manufacturers did.
- mattl 3y agoI thought Windows had winget or something now?
- fennecbutt 3y agoSounds like their sandbox and permissions system is lacking then. Hmm somehow I can go to any website in a browser and be just fine hmmmm