Re:Apple CEO Tim Cook: 'Privacy Is a Fundamental Human Right'
by kbenson on Thursday October 01, 2015 @08:45PM
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None of the security and privacy arguments require a walled garden though. The real benefit is the fine grained control over what an application can do on your system. A set of fine grained controls and a a good set of defaults, or better yet the ability to subscribe to defaults as recommended by third parties. I Apple had controls much finer than those presented by Android with a set of sane defaults, and to that I could add what the EFF's recommends as defaults, we would all be better off, because Apple's best interests and my best interests are not always aligned.
I'm going to repeat that last part, because I think it's very important. Apple's best interests and my best interests are not always aligned. Why should they have ultimate control over what can and cannot be run on my phone.
Re:Apple CEO Tim Cook: 'Privacy Is a Fundamental Human Right'
by ocean3 on Thursday October 01, 2015 @11:41PM
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"why many users actually prefer them" - Android is more open and from the numbers it seems users prefer it more then Apple.
But in actuality users don't have much option right more so in iOS.They would use the defaults.
Computer security is just far too confusing and difficult for the non-tech-savvy. With walled gardens people can delegate their security to someone that, while not perfect, is much better at it than they are. For most people this is a huge win. This is what happens to most peoples' computers if they are "open":
https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/99/259360546_504c726d0b.jpg
If someone has a better idea I'm all ears, but I don't know of one that could match the Apple Store for ease of use. Since user experience trumps everything, app stores are winning.