Apple restricts Pebble from being awesome with iPhones

Re:Apple restricts Pebble from being awesome with iPhones by nunez on Wednesday March 19, 2025 @11:39AM (#43413461)

Replacing a launcher can be pretty bad.

This happened to people I know. Some innocent sounding app replaced their launcher and added a fake Gmail widget to their home screen. It prompted them to login and, well, you know the rest.

This would never happen on iOS because you can't change the launcher.

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Re:Apple restricts Pebble from being awesome with iPhones by 827a on Wednesday March 19, 2025 @06:01PM (#43417743)

Agreed. Its my opinion that you should be able to replace the launcher on Android devices, but the Play Store should refuse to distribute apps that do this.

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Re:Apple restricts Pebble from being awesome with iPhones by nunez on Friday March 21, 2025 @02:56PM (#43439621)

I really like this.

People that know what they're doing can go nuts and sideload apks all day long, which is still more flexibility than you'll ever get with Apple.

People that barely know how to use their phone outside of a few key apps will never have to worry about this attack vector.

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