This is like someone drinking for the first time only long after reaching adulthood. Dumb mistakes will be made. Oh, well…
Sure, Apple has a point about protecting the users. But it’s their choice to make and I’m sure they will make it a really unattractive option with many warnings. Considering some of my friends who work in IT are now afraid to do things as simple as making changes in the registry now, I don’t think an unknowing user will be tricked into this.
And really let’s be honest Apple’s strong objections have absolutely nothing to do with user protection and absolutely everything with that 30% take they’re making.
And the thing is, for all Android’s lack of privacy, I can open the box of an Android phone and install whatever I want without having to even create an account with Google or Samsung or whoever. You can use an iPhone without an Apple ID but you can do absolutely nothing apart from the built-in apps.
Once this is implemented, what sort of apps are people hoping to see available?
Browsers with engines other than the WebKit, e.g. native Firefox with the Gecko.
The FOSS community will gain momentum.
I’ve definitely noticed a demand for emulators. Apple does not permit those on their app store.
Do we know if this is going to be implemented per device or it’s done via geolocation or something? I skimmed the article, didn’t seem to say besides “don’t get excited if you’re outside of Europe” or something to that effect. Basically wondering if this benefit can be gained in the future by importing a phone.
My dislike of Apple is… decades old. But Google sucks too. I need to dig into how Apple treats privacy (someone mentioned that it might not be great on another of these posts) and see how the software ecosystem outside of the Apple store shakes out. I’m hopefully several years out from needing a phone replacement, so I can wait and see how it goes.
Well Google sucks but at least they opened the door to sideloading and open-sourced Android so things like Graphene and LineageOS exist. You don’t have to put up with the spying. Apple spies less, but whatever is there is unavoidable right now. Same with controlling what you’re allowed to put on your phone.
