As its walled garden crumbles, Apple grudgingly allows EU users to sideload applications. Will regulators take stiffer action, and what about the US?

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.worldEnglish
    81·
    11 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.

    • hemmes@lemmy.worldEnglish
      16·
      11 months ago

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

      • MeanEYE@lemmy.worldEnglish
        41·
        11 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.