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> I wonder if this will come down to an arguement of 'letter' and 'spirit' of the law; clearly Apple's lawyers will say 'notarization' is for security which is
by Mindwipe 2y ago
> I wonder if this will come down to an arguement of 'letter' and 'spirit' of the law; clearly Apple's lawyers will say 'notarization' is for security which is explicitly allowed under the DMA. However Europe will argue Apple takes it 'too far' and has imposed terms to make it less likely for developers to use new app stores and thus undermines what the law is intended to do.
If the commission wanted to move faster then they should just move the notarization to a neutral third party, as we do for DNS.
- rekoil 2y agoHear, hear. Apps signed using code signing certificates that are in turn signed by roots in the OS trust store should run no questions asked (unless they are revoked of course), there needs to be a way to bypass this too, but that can be a "developer mode" of sorts and doesn't need to be easily accessible to the masses. (Thinking of something like Androids "tap the build ID 7 times to become a developer" approach.)