New “Report a Problem” link on product pages

Re:New “Report a Problem” link on product pages by mcny on Wednesday October 06, 2021 @04:47PM (#28778221)

I, for one, like the f-droid model or you could say any sane package manager model.

When I download a package from f-droid repository, I know the folks at f-droid have the source code of the bits I downloaded. Same thing with Debian and Fedora. Why can't Apple do the same thing? Require developers to submit machine-readable source code along with build instructions. Build them directly on Apple servers. Sign them with Apple's certificates.

I am not an Apple developer. As a consumer, I would welcome such a change.

Now, it is true that you could have a web view that fetches application chrome/content from a web server but I would argue Apple should disallow such apps anyway.

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Re:New “Report a Problem” link on product pages by etchalon on Wednesday October 06, 2021 @05:20PM (#28778606)

While that might be a great idea, Apple is a competitor of many of the companies in the App Store. I'm not sure how they'd feel about their largest competitor having access to their absolutely-valuable-and-secret source code.

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Re:New “Report a Problem” link on product pages by pabs3 on Thursday October 07, 2021 @01:04AM (#28782219)

They could require it be stored with a reputable escrow company.

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