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They are using it as a proxy for "people with low technical skills" (which is a specious argument since it was a friend of my parents who got me into programmin
by noir_lord 1y ago
They are using it as a proxy for "people with low technical skills" (which is a specious argument since it was a friend of my parents who got me into programming and he remains one of the best I've ever known) and making the usual argument that we should limit control of our devices to make it safe for them.
I actually don't have (much) of an issue with walled garden approaches as long as the wall has a gate that is easily opened, give me an OS level toggle with a warning of "Here be dragons" and I can live with it - it's not ideal but it's not a terrible trade off.
It's something Android has had previously (but they seem to be trying to lock that gate) and iOS less so.
- graemep 1y agoWhich is something I find very annoying, because I know a lot of people who are parents (or adults) or grandparents which have greater technical skills than their children.
- brabel 1y agoI can run anything on my Mac the way you described: go to security settings and tell it know what I am doing. Is that changing somehow?
- CuriousSkeptic 1y agoHow about instead of a single os level toggle you get a trillion dollar company, renowned for their high quality design, invested in providing the best possible UX while respecting the user as the owner of the device?
- gumby271 1y agoTell me more about this mythical mobile device and I'll buy one immediately!
- CuriousSkeptic 1y agoThe idea being that if we put apple in a regulatory environment where rent-seeking is no longer the winning strategy they could be forced to redirect their resources towards competing on customer value instead.
- 15155 1y ago> has a gate that is easily opened Invariably, the argument is: "users will just be instructed to open the gate by the bad guys, so we can't have a gate!"
- rpdillon 1y agoI think the burden of proof should be on them to show how often this happens.