Apple refuses to relax its iron grip on iPhones in Europe::As its walled garden crumbles, Apple grudgingly allows EU users to sideload applications. Will regulators take stiffer action, and what about the US?

  • MeanEYE@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    What makes you think mechanism that is used to install applications from Apple store can’t be equally exploited as the mechanism that’s used to install applications from a file? It’s the same mechanism.

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      10 months ago

      I’m not saying it can’t, but the attack surface is significantly reduced.

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        10 months ago

        I disagree. If anything Apple failing to detect new kind of malware and approving malicious application is easier route. Simply because people see the description and trust the source infinitely and click install.