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Re:Epic Games steps up Apple fight with EU antitrust complaint by bee_rider on Wednesday February 17, 2021 @04:54PM (#26172318)
The ability to run arbitrary software on a computer is not required to call it bug-free. You can't safely run whatever software you want on the computers in your car, for example.
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Re:Epic Games steps up Apple fight with EU antitrust complaint by kaba0 on Wednesday February 17, 2021 @05:33PM (#26172716)
I replied by the logic that forfeiting guarantee is unreasonable since sideloaded apps can only break as much as existing apps can.

There are good reasons to disallow any third party applications on some platforms like cars, but apple allows it and they only have a quick look at applications. The real security is in their sandbox/API.

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Re:Epic Games steps up Apple fight with EU antitrust complaint by heavyset_go on Wednesday February 17, 2021 @06:31PM (#26173326)
People share and distribute modified firmware dumps and load them on their automotive ECUs. It's actually quite common.
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