[HN Gopher] Tim Cook claims sideloading apps would destroy secur...
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       Tim Cook claims sideloading apps would destroy security and privacy
       of iOS
        
       Author : LinuxBender
       Score  : 6 points
       Date   : 2021-06-19 22:16 UTC (45 minutes ago)
        
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       | bsaul wrote:
       | Why not create guidelines for third party app stores then ? (
       | that wouldn't include a commission to apple, of course)
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       | Surely there's a middle ground between no third party store, and
       | the jungle.
        
       | FridayoLeary wrote:
       | Ah yes. Since they've started to pretend to care about privacy,
       | they can now justify anything they do by waving the privacy
       | banner. That excuse is frankly pathetic since they haven't
       | demonstrated a serious commitment to privacy for so long yet.
        
         | Google234 wrote:
         | Apple has been talking about privacy for a long time. Your last
         | statement is quite demonstrably false.
        
           | julienreszka wrote:
           | Well what do you make of the NSA Prism program to which Apple
           | participates?
           | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jun/06/us-tech-
           | giants...
        
       | superkuh wrote:
       | There's no such thing as sideloading. That's just installing. The
       | weird thing is taking over complete control of the hardware and
       | only allowing the owner to install software that your company
       | approves of (for now). Technofeudalism is not going to end up
       | helping the people it intends to.
        
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