Re:On iPhone sideloading: it’s ok, I’m changing my mind
by saurik on Wednesday February 09, 2022 @08:34PM
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> "my bank called and told me my app was broken and that I needed to redownload it..."
This problem isn't solved by the centralized App Store--even if it were good at blocking any app with functionality that would let it be used as a scam (which it is not)--as it is just as if not even easier to tell the person "your app is broken and you will need to use our website" and then give them the wrong URL.
Like, I don't understand what you are trying to accomplish here: you think your elderly parents are going to go through a number of steps to install software via a different process but won't go to a website? I bet going to a website would even be a prerequisite to sideloading, so why would the attacker bother adding even more steps?
You are thereby helping Apple do something bad for both society and large numbers of other people and you didn't even manage to get the one thing you wanted out of it :(.
This problem isn't solved by the centralized App Store--even if it were good at blocking any app with functionality that would let it be used as a scam (which it is not)--as it is just as if not even easier to tell the person "your app is broken and you will need to use our website" and then give them the wrong URL.
Like, I don't understand what you are trying to accomplish here: you think your elderly parents are going to go through a number of steps to install software via a different process but won't go to a website? I bet going to a website would even be a prerequisite to sideloading, so why would the attacker bother adding even more steps?
You are thereby helping Apple do something bad for both society and large numbers of other people and you didn't even manage to get the one thing you wanted out of it :(.