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Re:Apple’s tightly controlled App Store is teeming with scams by matheusmoreira on Sunday June 06, 2021 @04:30PM (#27416035)
The Apple review process is not in any way equivalent or even similar to seat belts and airbags. Not even the government can be fully blamed for bad drivers since people don't actually need a driver's license in order to drive.
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Re:Apple’s tightly controlled App Store is teeming with scams by nwienert on Sunday June 06, 2021 @04:32PM (#27416055)
Punishing companies for adding protections to their products is an insanely backwards incentive. May as well turn off sandboxing, and lock screens. If they ever break, it’d be a liability!
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Re:Apple’s tightly controlled App Store is teeming with scams by matheusmoreira on Sunday June 06, 2021 @04:43PM (#27416149)
Nah. If you're gonna set yourself up as the ultimate arbiter of what I can run on my device, you are absolutely to blame for any harm that comes as a result.

Protections? Encryption is protection. Address space randomization is protection. This Apple review process? This is just humans failing to do what's expected of them. Also known as negligence.

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Re:Apple’s tightly controlled App Store is teeming with scams by tekknik on Monday June 07, 2021 @09:51AM (#27422598)
there’s a lot of faulting apple here, when you point out it’s a “humans failing”. Does this mean you understand the process completely and you can do better?
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Re:Apple’s tightly controlled App Store is teeming with scams by atatatat on Monday June 07, 2021 @11:27AM (#27423705)
Probably not,

which is why he hasn't placed himself in the position of "arbiter of what's right and wrong on phones", the way Apple has with their App Store.

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Re:Apple’s tightly controlled App Store is teeming with scams by tekknik on Monday June 07, 2021 @10:28PM (#27429990)
so then what’s the argument here, if not perfect, remove?
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