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Re:Meta wants more access to your iPhone by BlueTemplar on Monday December 30, 2024 @02:02PM (#42552383)
Android is way more popular in the EU than iPhone, allows sideloading, and I am not aware of these issues being rampant with it ?
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Re:Meta wants more access to your iPhone by ben_w on Monday December 30, 2024 @03:02PM (#42552860)
While sideloading is possible on Android, it appears to be sufficiently difficult that Google isn't effective with the argument that this makes them "not a monopoly".

As a tech person I find this weird, but then I remember the relevant XKCD: https://xkcd.com/2501/

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Re:Meta wants more access to your iPhone by BlueTemplar on Tuesday December 31, 2024 @03:07AM (#42557284)
But then the argument that opening iOS up is going to cause security issues isn't effective either.
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Re:Meta wants more access to your iPhone by ben_w on Tuesday December 31, 2024 @05:34AM (#42557833)
Why so?

Surely if normal people can't do a thing, even if only because it's too complicated or inconvenient, normal people aren't going to be a big source of security issues due to that thing.

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