Re:Apple’s “monopsony” power, and the woman who named it
by scarface74 on Wednesday January 15, 2020 @03:18PM
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1. Right. Because historically “the user” has been very good about understanding security implications of their choices. Have you been following the PC industry for the last 30 years?
No one considers email to be secure because of if nothing else, the store and forward nature.
IMessage is end to end encrypted. Should Apple also allow third parties the ability to intercept iMessage or should they split iMessage from sms? Who does that benefit?
2. Now some developers are in a privileged position.
Using this logic you should then ot have the freedom to read your emails outside Apple browser or email client on your computers, the solution is
1 let the user decide if the trusts the third party
2 for sensitive application like mail/sms/browsers review the top 5 alternative browsers/email clients etc and allow only those, I assume Apple has the ability to say discuss with Mozilla about allowing Firefox on iOS, what APIs and what privacy rules need to be respected and then have a team of lawyers ready if Mozilla breaches the contract/promises.
My point there are solutions between the extremes of not allow thrid party access and allow any random app access.