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I agree, all these moves to open iOS are from some of the biggest pushers of enshittification. The walled garden is great for me, and all sideloading will do is open up new attack vectors for me (and more importantly, the tech ignorant people i care about).

I understand the corporate actors pushing for this out of self interest, but all of the bystanders cheering this on annoy me. You already have android, linux phones, etc. etc. Can't you just leave us alone in our walled garden and stick with android or linux or whatever?

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How does opening up the walled garden impact you if you never side load anything?

It's the same for people who want homosexuality to be forbidden. It's not enough for themselves to not be homosexual, they also have to force their faith onto others.

This is a ridiculous analogy. Surely you can acknowledge that there may be some kind of security concern – warranted or not – for opening up sideloading on iOS, without casting aspersions on the GP being some kind of closeted bigot.

"It might be dangerous to be gay. You can catch an STD. Hence it should be forbidden."

Come on man, is this really a good faith interpretation of what I said? You will recognize that this feature means widening the attack surface for no value (if you're not sideloading apps)

If you are not sideloading apps, your attack surface is unchanged.

So it's impossible for that mechanism to be insecure? There is a 0% chance it could be exploited to load software onto my phone? There is a 0% border guards at a country won't make me install an app to come into the country? I can understand you valuing tradeoffs different from me but not acknowledging that there is any risk (when it's already shown to be a risk on android) just comes off as zealotry or bad faith

iphones got pwned at least 4 times in 2023 via iMessage. And yet I don't see you commenting that iMessage must be removed.

I like how you appropriate a word coined by someone with a completely opposed point of view to your own.

Just kidding. I don't like it.

Live and let live man. Nobody is forcing you to install anything you don't want. Don't impose your preferences on others. It does no damage to you.

It likely won't since I'm technologically sophisticated, but it likely will do damage to people I care about

Install parent mode on their devices if they need a parent.

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