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Much as I love Android, and much as the Android team has done yeoman's work on this front... Sadly, today, the more accurate statement is all of them are theor
by fpgeek 14y ago
Much as I love Android, and much as the Android team has done yeoman's work on this front...
Sadly, today, the more accurate statement is all of them are theoretically solvable by sandboxing and permissions mechanisms. Getting those sandboxes and permissions where they need to be at a technical level, explaining those permissions to users in a way they can understand and make decisions based on and making the overall framework as transparent and usable enough is very much an unsolved problem.
- esolyt 14y agoWhat I meant was, this is the correct approach. The implementation is not necessarily perfect. But in my opinion, it is much better than Apple's approach, which actually gives the world a bigger problem: A company deciding what software I can install on my device and what software I cannot.
- Tyrannosaurs 14y agoMy preference is that Apple keep doing what they're doing but also take a less aggressive approach to jail breaking phones. As someone who gets dragged in to sorting out the IT issues of friends, family, neighbours and who knows what else, there is a lot of benefit to the Apple approach at what is for most people, little real cost. The problem is the absoluteness of their position. I don't mind if they make people jump through hoops to jailbreak phones, I don't mind if their default support position for phones is to restore them to factory settings before they'll even look at it, but I think allowing for the possibility of jail breaking as an accepted thing would be good for both choice, and making sure Apple stay honest.
- fpgeek 14y agoYes, absolutely. I just think it is important to remember where the weaknesses are and why some people are making an alternative tradeoff.