Apple terminates Epic Games developer account, calling it a 'threat' to iOS

Re:Apple terminates Epic Games developer account, calling it... by Zak on Wednesday March 06, 2024 @04:53PM (#39622131)

This complaint is valid for Google's Android as well for building a remote attestation system apps can use to see if the user has modified the operating system.

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Re:Apple terminates Epic Games developer account, calling it... by ethbr1 on Wednesday March 06, 2024 @04:59PM (#39622207)

In Google's case, at least they have the technical fig leaf of being able to blame third parties.

I.e. Google only implements Play Integrity (nee SafetyNet) attestation. Third parties decide what to use it for. Google has no control over those third parties.

That said, in practice it's 90% about controlling and limiting open source / third-party Android forks.

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Re:Apple terminates Epic Games developer account, calling it... by XorNot on Wednesday March 06, 2024 @04:58PM (#39622191)

"Bring Your Own Device" has honestly been pretty pathological in this regard. I like only having my phone on me, I very much dislike the various levels of invasive that corporate compliance software is designed around (Google do...not a bad job here in just having the domains separated, but I'd be much happier if it all had to live in it's own VM with only the access I grant it back to the main device).

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