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Re:Apple, Google criticised for Saudi Absher app that tracks... by sneak on Tuesday February 12, 2019 @08:46AM (#19143354)
> Apple claims total dominion over what apps you can run on your iOS device

This stopped being true some years ago. You can build any app you wish from source and Xcode will sign it and you can run it on your iOS device—no approval or payment required.

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Re:Apple, Google criticised for Saudi Absher app that tracks... by jocoda on Tuesday February 12, 2019 @11:50AM (#19145122)
> no approval or payment required

If you don't have a paid developer license it will silently be uninstalled after 7 days.

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Re:Apple, Google criticised for Saudi Absher app that tracks... by ox_cable on Tuesday February 12, 2019 @09:13AM (#19143553)
Yupp, because so many apps are open source.
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Re:Apple, Google criticised for Saudi Absher app that tracks... by sjwright on Tuesday February 12, 2019 @09:20AM (#19143621)
Apple isn’t stopping anyone from open-sourcing their apps.
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Re:Apple, Google criticised for Saudi Absher app that tracks... by cerberusss on Wednesday February 13, 2019 @03:14AM (#19151365)
That's an interesting argument you bring up here. Why aren't more people open-sourcing their apps? Especially with a client-server architecture, you can simply keep the server part closed. I'm an iOS developer, but there's usually not all that much of interest in the iOS client.
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