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A comment on Apple to allow outside app stores in overhaul spurred by EU laws. Parent comment

Re:Apple to allow outside app stores in overhaul spurred by ... by matheusmoreira on Tuesday December 13, 2022 @06:15PM (#33977659)
> Android allows that.

For now. Remote attestation is already a thing and soon Android apps will refuse to work on phones that have been "tampered with".

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Re:Apple to allow outside app stores in overhaul spurred by ... by heavyset_go on Tuesday December 13, 2022 @06:26PM (#33977780)
This already happens.
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Re:Apple to allow outside app stores in overhaul spurred by ... by matheusmoreira on Tuesday December 13, 2022 @06:35PM (#33977872)
Yeah but you can still use software like Magisk to fake out whatever detection mechanisms they used. With hardware remote attestation, it will be impossible to do that.
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