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Apple's head of security speaks out against iPhone app sideloading in new interview (9to5mac.com)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Should side-loading be allowed? From a consumer point of view, absolutely.

Will it also be a nightmare for Apple? Also yes. Just wait till boomers and dumb teenagers load malware onto her iPhone and some poor schmuck at the Apple Store has to deal with it. Keeping the iPhone locked to the App Store is far simpler for Apple and makes the phones more reliable. It's also hella profitable.

For those of us who know what we're doing, it would be awesome to have access to apps that Apple might not otherwise not allow. It'll also give developers more freedom.

But you gotta remember that the general population is dumb and does dumb shit.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

It's easy to manage the situation in reality, when you download from third party sources you put a disclaimer that warns of the possible consequences, if there are problems Apple washes its hands of it and off you go