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> worried if they ever allowed unsigned apps to run

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.

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I worry about my family both young and old who all had adware and malware ridden Android phones before I got them iPhones.

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.

> who all had adware and malware ridden Android phones before I got them iPhones.

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.

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All of your concerns are actually solvable through software … if Apple were willing to work on it. But doing that doesn’t bring a lot of revenue so they keep pushing the narrative how the entire category of applications is malicious or risky.

Exactly. My device, my code can run.

The idea that I can't run my own apps because a company is protecting me is laughable.

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