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Re:Apple Terminates Epic Games' Developer Account by Aeolun on Saturday August 29, 2020 @01:18AM (#24313787)
> Either Apple will still need to review these, have IPAs notarized, or have contracts in place with each app store developer to ensure the same app review quality. I don't see epic accepting any of these scenarios without a fight.

As Windows shows us, none of these need to be true.

Don’t download random shit from people you shouldn’t trust, and you won’t have malware and/or keyloggers.

Re:Apple Terminates Epic Games' Developer Account by michaeldorian on Saturday August 29, 2020 @01:47AM (#24313926)
"Don’t download random shit from people you shouldn’t trust, and you won’t have malware and/or keyloggers."

If only it was that simple. Apple's audience is not really us. I can't count the number of times, my mother-in-law tried to install random stuff on her PC and me having to deal with it. This is Apple's user.

Re:Apple Terminates Epic Games' Developer Account by Aeolun on Saturday August 29, 2020 @06:09AM (#24315051)
Apple has 1.5 billion users. I’m fairly certain they don’t only target technically challenged people.
Re:Apple Terminates Epic Games' Developer Account by Reelin on Saturday August 29, 2020 @01:29AM (#24313845)
Ditto for Linux and Android. I'm sure I could find a sketchy closed source kernel module somewhere out there that's actually malware. That's not a problem in practice though because I'd have to leave the confines of the official repositories for my OS and intentionally seek it out.

(I suppose NPM could be an interesting point of discussion here though.)

Re:Apple Terminates Epic Games' Developer Account by bekman on Saturday August 29, 2020 @02:06AM (#24314007)
Tell this to the 99% non techie populations