Hacker News Reader

Comment by mrkramer | Hacker News Reader

I still don't understand is Apple conservative about AppStore because of security reasons or like Zuck said they prefer their own apps and services. I mean if Google open sourced Android why wouldn't Apple ease their AppStore policies?

View on HN

Apple sees privacy as a marketable point of differentiation to its competitors. I for one appreciate that Apple’s approach is a choice available to me as a consumer.

Meanwhile, the arc of Google’s Android platform has been steadily bending away from open source, not towards it.

I understand that privacy is point of differentiation but on Android you can still load any .apk file on any Android device on iOS devices not so much.

Effective privacy protection means that app developers need strong incentives to follow strict rules. I for one appreciate that Apple’s approach of enforcing strict rules is a choice available to me as a consumer.

You can install any .ipa on a iOS device you just need to jump through a bunch of hoops to get it onto your device signed in a way that will make it valid.

Can I do this without MacOS?

As long as you have an existing developer certificate or jailbreak the phone you can. You could use something like isign. https://github.com/sauce-archives/isign

Or altstore https://altstore.io/ which is literally a locally run alternative App Store.

Apple is all about power and control over their users. The security schtick is a smokescreen

Reply on news.ycombinator.com