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Re:Epic, Spotify, and Tinder form advocacy group to push for... by nuker on Thursday September 24, 2020 @08:34PM (#24585283)
> if the government said “you have a right to install apps of your choice”. Apple adds a setting in the settings menu. You still get your locked down device by default,

Users will just flip it off for the first evil app they told to install by friends. Think about 95% of all users.

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Re:Epic, Spotify, and Tinder form advocacy group to push for... by nwienert on Friday September 25, 2020 @04:48AM (#24587902)
It’s still sandboxed. What evil thing would it be doing?
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Re:Epic, Spotify, and Tinder form advocacy group to push for... by eqtn on Friday September 25, 2020 @06:46AM (#24588496)
Do you need the outside app to have access to bluetooth, location, storage etc? And if apple restricts the storage, then a company will sue apple again for the restrictions saying that the iOS photos app have unrestricted access to photos, whereas an outside app doesn't.
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Re:Epic, Spotify, and Tinder form advocacy group to push for... by nwienert on Friday September 25, 2020 @10:48AM (#24590362)
Apple sandboxes each thing granularly. Even with photos you can choose to only let the app see just the photo you pick.
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