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This is another key weaknesss of the iphone. I have it installed on my Android phone, but even if I didn't, I could download the .apk and install it (because n
by blueskin_ 13y ago
This is another key weaknesss of the iphone.
I have it installed on my Android phone, but even if I didn't, I could download the .apk and install it (because nothing is ever gone on the internet), but you can't do that in a walled garden.
- k-mcgrady 13y agoI'm pretty sure you could jailbreak the device and install the ipa from somewhere. And it's not a weakness of the iPhone. It a reason you personally wouldn't buy one but for the vast vase majority of people this will never ever matter.
- mikeash 13y ago"It's not a weakness" because it doesn't matter for most people? That makes no sense.
- k-mcgrady 13y agoI meant in the sense that by enabling that feature there are also security issues introduced to the platform and for most people those costs outweigh the benefit gained by adding the feature. So if you look at it as a missing feature you could consider it a weakness. If you look at the effects of introducing it to the platform, overall, leaving it out is not a weakness - it's a smart decision.
- mikeash 13y agoSideloading doesn't really introduce security issues. Security against malware on iOS is provided by sandboxing, not by Apple's approval process, which is far too cursory to detect any serious malware.
- blueskin_ 13y agoRubbish. It's about as much of a risk as letting a user do anything. Google even have a service that scans installed apks for known bad ones if you want to share everything you do with them. Apple could do something similar if they decided user choice wasn't evil and bad after all.
- coldtea 13y ago>This is another key weaknesss of the iphone. The ability to respect the wish of the app author that wants it gone?
- icebraining 13y agoJust because it's the wish of the author, doesn't mean it's imperative that we respect it. Much like the King in the Little Prince, the wishes must be reasonable. And wishing that the app would completely vanish is not reasonable.
- AznHisoka 13y agoUmm why?
- icebraining 13y agoWhy, what? Why must wishes be reasonable? Or why is that wish unreasonable?
- mikeash 13y agoEvery platform has the ability. Just don't download it. Boom, done. You're respecting his wishes. What the iPhone has is the ability for Apple to enforce it.
- blueskin_ 13y agoI guess you probably consider Amazon's ability to remotely memory-hole books on Kindles good too. How about having all thought and speech remotely pre-screened for anything that could potentially offend someone? Censorship is bad.