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Re:Apple 'like The Godfather' with new App Store rules by BenFranklin100 on Saturday March 09, 2024 @10:01PM (#39656398)
I value Apple’s ‘tight fist’ around the iPhone app ecosystem and iOS in general. Android’s flexibility and Google’s focus on profiling consumers come with a risk of security and at a cost of privacy respectively. With more and more personal information stored on phones, I’ll accept the walled garden. Apple is clearly pursuing a business model where consumers will be comfortable storing sensitive information such as medical records on one’s device. This will require a tight fist to keep bad actors away.
Re:Apple 'like The Godfather' with new App Store rules by postpawl on Saturday March 09, 2024 @10:15PM (#39656449)
It’s barely about security. It’s tough to do things like getting Firefox with an ad blocker on an iPhone.
Re:Apple 'like The Godfather' with new App Store rules by judge2020 on Saturday March 09, 2024 @11:33PM (#39656728)
There are official ad blockers for Safari on the App Store. Firefox and Firefox Focus on iOS have (ad-based) tracking blockers, and Microsoft Edge on iOS also has an ad blocker.
Re:Apple 'like The Godfather' with new App Store rules by postpawl on Sunday March 10, 2024 @01:02AM (#39657038)
You’re talking about “strict tracking protection” that’s basically like browsing the web in incognito mode? That’s not really like Adblock origin. You know they only allow their own browser engine (WebKit) on iOS?
Re:Apple 'like The Godfather' with new App Store rules by kalleboo on Sunday March 10, 2024 @06:04AM (#39657998)
Apple has a set of APIs to allow third parties to write content (=ad/tracker) blocker extensions for Safari on iOS and distribute them on the App Store

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/safariservices/cre...

Re:Apple 'like The Godfather' with new App Store rules by e40 on Saturday March 09, 2024 @11:07PM (#39656643)
I moved my 80 year old mother to iOS from Android because I was wasting too much time cleaning her phone after infections. She would install card games from the app store. So much malware.

Since the move not a single infection.

Re:Apple 'like The Godfather' with new App Store rules by TheLoafOfBread on Sunday March 10, 2024 @04:36AM (#39657629)
Or you just don't know, because there are no means on iOS to figure it out.
Re:Apple 'like The Godfather' with new App Store rules by e40 on Sunday March 10, 2024 @11:49AM (#39660097)
I doubt this. They would be tossing up ads, most likely. That's what the malware on Android does most of the time. She's not a target for nation states, after all.
Re:Apple 'like The Godfather' with new App Store rules by EMIRELADERO on Saturday March 09, 2024 @10:10PM (#39656429)
I'd much prefer that tight fist came from the law rather than a private corporation. The DMA is acceptable in Europe in part because they already have GDPR.
Re:Apple 'like The Godfather' with new App Store rules by CamperBob2 on Saturday March 09, 2024 @10:28PM (#39656506)
User name most emphatically does not check out
Re:Apple 'like The Godfather' with new App Store rules by BenFranklin100 on Saturday March 09, 2024 @11:09PM (#39656648)
Contrary to popular belief, even Franklin had the good sense not to fly a kite in a thunderstorm. There is essential liberty and there is stupidity.
Re:Apple 'like The Godfather' with new App Store rules by Brian_K_White on Sunday March 10, 2024 @03:25AM (#39657354)
There is nothing about the service of curation that requires it be done the particular way Apple does it. Their, and your, position is not supported by the given rationale.
Re:Apple 'like The Godfather' with new App Store rules by cfr2023 on Sunday March 10, 2024 @04:55AM (#39657704)
I love all of your myopic belligerent posts, will definitely be following for more.
Re:Apple 'like The Godfather' with new App Store rules by Cupertino95014 on Sunday March 10, 2024 @07:34PM (#39663389)
.. and this from the guy who spends his days policing other people's posts.
Re:Apple 'like The Godfather' with new App Store rules by nickm12 on Sunday March 10, 2024 @01:14AM (#39657091)
Right on. I would also like Apple to decide what books I'm able to read and what foods I can eat, because users having control of these things comes with a risk of security and cost of privacy.

But seriously, if you want a walled garden, that's your right and other people having a choice does not infringe on it. You might actually like having alternate app stores—maybe one will be able to have even tighter controls on the privacy and security guarantees of the apps and avoid all the scams of the Apple app store: https://mjtsai.com/blog/tag/app-store-scams/