I value Apple’s ‘tight fist’ around the iPhone app ecosystem and iOS in general. Android’s flexibility and Google’s focus on profiling consumers come with a risk of security and at a cost of privacy respectively. With more and more personal information stored on phones, I’ll accept the walled garden. Apple is clearly pursuing a business model where consumers will be comfortable storing sensitive information such as medical records on one’s device. This will require a tight fist to keep bad actors away.
HN is in a scary place if any critical post of Apple is being astroturfed by obvious bad actors and nothing is being done about it.
Ironic that DMA forcing Apple to create a way for legitimate third party app stores to be established is leading to good press for shady app stores like AppValley and the like that abuse enterprise signing certificates to bypass App Store's "security".
It goes to show that Apple's whinging about the risks inherent with the DMA are unfounded when it's been possible to bypass the app store this way already.
The BBC piece is pretty fluffy, it's not clear how this person thinks they'll get approved without shutting down AppValley first.
It is the fiefdom of the new age.
Good, I’m paying a premium on memory for a reason.
It’s interesting to see the downvotes pour in once the Europeans wake up.
Compare it to the wild wild west of Android, Huawei and Samsung app stores my kid installed 2-3 games and suddenly his tablet is filled with ads poppin frequently out of nowhere (background). Ads that are sometimes contains adult themes.