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> What possible reason would there be for Apple to care one whit about the apps that are installed to your phone? There, fixed that for you.

• glhaynes 14y ago
  Because they feel (rightly or wrongly) that they can practically provide a better, more secure, etc. experience for their customers by controlling/curating what executes on their devices.
  • cryptoz 14y ago
    Right. So it obviously stands to reason that they might think that's true for the email services too.
    • taligent 14y ago
      It really doesn't. It is illogical to block just this phrase and not the many others that would be far worse.
      • lmm 14y ago
        What makes you think they're not blocking other phrases?
  • eridius 14y ago
    The security implications of only allowing codesigned code to execute is completely divorced from the decision to control what content is allowed on Apple's storefront. The former limits what's on your phone, but does not make any judgement about the content. The latter makes a judgement about the content, but doesn't limit what you can run on your phone if you can find some other avenue to run stuff (e.g. self-signed with a dev cert, or web apps).
• eridius 14y ago
  No you didn't. They don't care what's on your phone. They care about two things: 1) What's on their store, and 2) How apps get on your phone, e.g. they must be codesigned by Apple. The former is where they apply their content standards. The latter is a (very effective) security measure. But, for example, Apple doesn't care in the slightest if I make a hardcore pornography app, sign it with my own developer cert, and install it on my phone. They only care if I try and submit it to their store. Similarly, they don't care if I open up Safari and visit some pornographic website, even if it uses HTML5 offline mode and gets added as an independent icon to my home screen.
  • cryptoz 14y ago
    > But, for example, Apple doesn't care in the slightest if I make a hardcore pornography app, sign it with my own developer cert, and install it on my phone. You don't know that. They don't know you've done this and they can't know you've done it, so how you do you if they care or not?
    • eridius 14y ago
      You're acting like Apple has some vast conspiracy to eradicate objectionable material from the face of the planet. That's ridiculous. Apple has been pretty open about the fact that they just care about what's on their storefront. The only reason that this effectively means they control what's on your phone is because most people can't install apps on their phone except via Apple's App Store. Although, as usual, everyone in the world is free to view whatever objectionable website they want.