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I can't wait for the day when all it takes to install an app on an iPhone is to click a link and you're done!
That way all it will take to infect my parents' phones with malware capable of scraping copious amounts of my data will be normal phone usage that Apple can't protect against!
And now that AI is capable of simulating voices reasonably well, a phone call from mom asking for sensitive information can be done through her phone by anyone!
That way all it will take to infect my parents’ phones with malware capable of scraping copious amounts of my data will be normal phone usage that Apple can’t protect against!
Um... What? iPhone apps run in a sandbox. They can't access anything. They can't even run at all unless the user launches the app or interacts with a notification. Background running is strictly limited to things like music playback with very few exceptions (exceptions which are taken away if the user never launches the app).
And for the record, I don't own an android phone and never have.
...do you know what enforces all of that?
The App store...
Specifically it limits what APIs can and can't be used by apps and forces the use of entitlements to access features of the hardware.
Downvote if you want, but entitelements are part of the code signing process which this article is trying to avoid. And jailbroken apps already don't have the protections you're talking about.
It's not uncommon for people to datamine not public API all over Apple's frameworks and the only thing preventing the usage is App Store policies and static analysis tools.
...do you know what enforces all of that?
The App store...
Umm… no? The phone operating system (iOS) enforces sandboxing. You can not run anything outside the sandbox without some exploit, at which point we have a completely new discussion.
Maybe people should learn how to use their stuff responsibly and not install every funny looking app they come across
Or they can buy iOS products and not Android ones?
Then why not boy some training wheels why you are at it?
That's not a gotcha. It's literally what people want in iOS and already have an alternative available that they can choose.
Apple-bad people want to remove the choice.
Apple-bad people want to remove the choice.
I don't get it. Obviously apple is the one that's removing choice everywhere they can