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The App Store as the only way to install apps is the worst part about iOS and why I'll never use it again. I'm always helping friends with piracy and I have to
by Cider9986 2mo ago
The App Store as the only way to install apps is the worst part about iOS and why I'll never use it again.
I'm always helping friends with piracy and I have to tell them they can't conveniently use a native app because it isn't listed on the App Store.
And then there's the removal of ICE apps.
It's too much control. On iOS, if the government banned Signal, Apple could enforce it. On GrapheneOS, you can use whatever app from anywhere no matter what.
- rzwitserloot 2mo agoIf a government entity would work like this, all heck would break loose. Trying to contrast this to the EU's attempts to force only gatekeepers (those companies so large that there is no alternative to dealing with them) to open up systems, even at the cost of damaging e.g. apple's valiant and welcome attempts to protect the privacy of its customers, highlights to me that the EU is completely correct in doing so.
- gwerbin 2mo agoGovernment entities in the USA already work like this. That's how all this came about.
- derbOac 2mo agoYes, the posted story has so many layers of wrongness in it — it's hard to pick just one. None of it would be a problem without the App store in its current form though.
- veeti 2mo agoOnce Android developer verification rolls out globally, Alphabet Inc. in Mountain View and the US sanctions and export controls list will become the sole arbitrer of accepted software publishers. Only minority platforms like GrapheneOS, Mac OS X, Win32, Linux remain as free general computing operating systems.