There are plenty of “free Vbucks” and survey sites that show you how to enable sideloading on Android to download said app that is just pure malware.
I see this stance often - Do you mean worried for the wellbeing of the easily manipulable (e.g. children) on the platform, Or worried for the quality floor more generally?
The former has an argument, the latter does not in my opinion. Even then while I welcome a requirement for apple to notarise apps for regular install (particularly as a means to verify the source), I'd also demand the ability to run unsigned apps unrestricted - whether the barrier is self-signing, a settings checkbox, make me stare at a 30s countdown, whatever.
The idea that I can't run my own apps because a company is protecting me is laughable.
The vast majority of people use smartphones against their will and have no desire to learn anything about the magical Facebook machine in their hands.
They press buttons and things happen, who cares what the dialog box says, they press the button that will get them doing what they want to do the fastest, who cares if it said whatever they were doing is dangerous. This is how most people view their phones, and why there are Android botnets and not iOS botnets.
In all fairness nothing changes. You are happy with the store? Stay on the store!
But I am an adult, a developer with 25 years of experience and enjoy hacking.
It is my right to pretend from Apple to let me install whatever I want on the device I bought and own 100% and to not be patronizing.
Put the damn setting somewhere hard to activate accidentally and require triple authorisation if it need to be, but stop playing games.
Thanks
And yet the world hasn't collapsed due to every Android users' identity and bank accounts being stolen.
Maybe users aren't as dumb as Apple pretends they are.
€0.50 seems like a reasonable cost for that, similar to how we don’t make circuit breakers or seatbelts optional just because some guy thinks he doesn’t need them and resents paying the extra cost.
If you want to block me from being able to install apps from outside the Apple app store though, that's none of your business (or Apple's).
Apple is not stopping you from buying a phone that isn’t from Apple.
If most people thought like you did, they would just not buy iPhones. The problem is nobody wants what you’re asking for, because you’re buying into the euro-populist cope that it helps consumers, even though this was just a play to allow European companies to even have a small chance at making money in tech because of how over regulated the industry is in Europe.
You’re asking for iOS to be a flavor of Android, and the reality is the Android experience fucking sucks.
> even though this was just a play to allow European companies to even have a small chance at making money in tech because of how over regulated the industry is in Europe
Please cite your sources.
> You’re asking for iOS to be a flavor of Android, and the reality is the Android experience fucking sucks.
No. The user is clearly asking to run software on a device that they own. Why is Apple controlling what software people can run on hardware that they don't own? Should Microsoft not allow people to run software on devices that Microsoft does not own?
You can enable unsigned apps, but you'll loose Apple services (e.g. iMessage). This should be enough to convince normal users not to do it, but allow those who really want to do it, to do it.
On Windows, people literally just give everything they install complete root access to their entire system when installing applications, might as well bring that to iOS too, right?
You’re not making the point you think you’re making. There’s a lot more danger using macOS/Windows than iOS, and the people who interact with computers at work aren’t given administrative access for a reason.
I can grant anything access to my iCloud Keychain on macOS, do you honestly think iOS users should be able to press a button to allow this if a random app requested it? Do you even think they will know what that means? Now imagine if unsigned applications could access keychain like on macOS. How well do you think that will go down?
Apple drew the line at consumer safety, and developers hate that they can’t abuse their powers like they do everywhere else.
Because it is not even possible on iOS, so false sense of security
> On Windows, people literally just give everything they install complete root access to their entire system when installing applications, might as well bring that to iOS too, right?
You have not used Windows for looooong time, otherwise you would know that this is not the case since Windows 7 and not the case at all on Domain (enterprise) Windows since Windows XP
> I can grant anything access to my iCloud Keychain on macOS, do you honestly think iOS users should be able to press a button to allow this if a random app requested it? Do you even think they will know what that means? Now imagine if unsigned applications could access keychain like on macOS. How well do you think that will go down?
Of course, why not. Are iOS user dumber than MacOS users?
> Apple drew the line at consumer safety, and developers hate that they can’t abuse their powers like they do everywhere else.
This has nothing to do with safety, but with users demanding support for their iOS toys, while refusing to acknowledge, that if Apple bans me from App Store for whatever reason, all the money spent on iOS support are now running down the drain.
The real world isn’t a computer, and Apple is held responsible for user mistakes.
Remember the fappening? Apple never let users make security decisions on their iPhone again and forced MFA.
You’re talking about walking back decades of platform security because you want to be special, which by the way, everyone who does this for a living agrees with Apple here, including Google. That’s why they’re making Rooted phones worse experiences, 99% of people cannot be trusted with the sort of access you’re talking about, and Google knows that.
I am developing for Windows, MacOS, Android and iOS. Please continue explaining me how I know nothing about it.
UAC prompts get in the way, and if the user account isn't an admin the app can't do anything.