Comment by ApolloFortyNine
2 years ago
>You might, like me, feel Apple's App store walled garden is on balance a net positive, leaving me with almost no worries related to upgrade problems, my family's phones being compromised by malware, etc, or you might like many others hate the controls
You realize the app store can remain a walled garden, and users can be allowed to install their own applications right?
It's wild to me the number of people who argue for less freedom when the topic of Apple's walled garden comes up.
>It's also nothing like Microsoft -- Microsoft was a monopoly, full stop, in the 1990s.
Plenty of anti trust cases have been brought against companies that don't have 90% of a market. 60+% is quite a lot.
You realize that when you add appstores like Cydia to an iphone that you immediately open them up into gaping security holes right?
I assume you have never managed the devices of teenagers or a large group of millenial office workers.
To me, it being closed is an absolute feature that I value.
Blame Apple for that. They require you to disable security by jailbreaking your phone in order to install Cydia. On Android you can easily install other appstores while keeping security intact.
If you don't want other app stores, just deploy an MDM profile that bans them.
> You realize that when you add appstores like Cydia to an iphone that you immediately open them up into gaping security holes right?
Then this is an OS sandboxing issue, not an App Store issue. The only difference between an app store and a regular app is the app store is permitted to install other apps. This extra permission should not introduce any security flaws if sandboxing is working properly.