Re:Apple will attempt to jam Facebook's web-tracking tools
by ubermonkey on Wednesday June 06, 2018 @01:44PM
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I'm really not. I have apps on my iOS devices right now that I didn't get from the app store; all I had to do was download them from the publisher, and then accept their signature in the security settings. (In my case, it's the frozen-in-amber old version of Sonos, which they'll let you have if you ask for it, but presumably this would work for anything.)
Anyway, you're coming at me apparently ready to argue about whether it is or isn't a walled garden. That isn't what I'm asking about. I'm asking what, specifically, Apple won't let you do that you want or need to do that leads you to describe it as a walled garden.
You seem to be deliberately understating the difficulty. For the overwhelming majority of the people, it's simply not an option.
I'm not who you're replying to, but it's hard to honestly argue that Apple doesn't maintain a walled garden unless you come up with a euphemistic term that means the same thing but sounds more generous. It's entirely possible that such a model doesn't bother you, and it clearly doesn't bother most of their enormous customer base, but that doesn't make it not the case.