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The fact that there's no legal remedy only highlights the inadequacy of the laws on the books. Simple solution: require all OS vendors to permit opt-in, off-by
by kethinov 11y ago
The fact that there's no legal remedy only highlights the inadequacy of the laws on the books.
Simple solution: require all OS vendors to permit opt-in, off-by-default sideloading.
Curate your app store all you want, but don't prevent your users from running whatever software they want on their own computers.
That would solve this.
- TD-Linux 11y agoThis is basically the anti-tivoization clause of the GPLv3. Look at how much fuss was caused by that.
- AlphaSite 11y agoEven Apple is allowing side loading from iOS9 iirc.
- kethinov 11y agoVia Xcode and only if you have the source code. Doesn't quite work for people trying to distribute apps that aren't allowed in the app store.
- AlphaSite 11y agoI dont imagine it will take someone long to work around that, they already gave you the tools in the form of bitcode.
- kethinov 11y agoThat's all well and good, but Google can't exactly ask all their users to download Xcode and deploy some workaround to get a prebuilt Chrome binary bundled with Blink on their iPhone. Jailbreaking it and installing it via Cydia would be easier.
- ianamartin 11y agoYes. Destroying your platform's security model is exactly what we need governments to do.
- kethinov 11y agoI'm tired of people repeating that false dichotomy. Such a policy hasn't destroyed Mac OS X's security model and it wouldn't destroy iOS'.