I trust Apple to do a decent job at protecting me (and more importantly, my less tech minded friends) more than a 3rd party app store. I dont mind using webkit, but I do recognize that its a shit move by Apple to not allow other rendering engines in the store. Just not a shitty enough for me to go F-Droid and micromanage my phone.
I will not install a 3rd party app store if Apple allowed it
I would sideload a browser from an official repository.
But if apple loosened the webkit restriction, I could get my preferred browser without sideloading or using 3rd party appstore.
You don't even need a third-party app to get a virus on iPhone. As long as you're signed in with your Apple ID, you're vulnerable to Pegasus and a number of other decoder-based payloads that can crash, manipulate or create an entire VM inside your iPhone.
Worrying about the contents of an Open-Source binary is small-fries, my friend.
Alternatively, just have realistic expectations of the devices you own. Everything you have is vulnerable to exploits and social engineering. Apple can't save you from that any more than Google, Microsoft, or even the Open Source community can. Apple pretending that they're poised to solve these problems is an illusion, and one you probably shouldn't argue in favor of.
What strawman are you fighting? What expectation did I say that isn't realistic? I did not state that I was against Apple allowing 3rd party appstores or against sideloading. I said that I prefer to use the offical app store, and I am happy that Apple is loosening the restrictions around 3rd party browser engines as I did not agree with it.
Maybe I am misinterpreting your argument? I feel like you stated that since state actors can hack my phone, I should stop worrying about security.
The appstore limited Facebooks ability to collect information on me. This is a fact.
> I trust Apple to do a decent job at protecting me [...] more than a 3rd party app store.
Arguing over App Store security borders on hypocrisy when there are gaping-wide exploits in the default iOS ecosystem.
Also, this bit:
> more importantly, my less tech minded friends
If your friends can't be trusted to use the internet without direct supervision, maybe they shouldn't have access to Safari, YouTube, Twitter or an iPhone either. It's a hard argument to strongman when the iPhone has a web browser packed in.
How am I hypnotized? I'm not even arguing against 3rd party app stores right to exist, nor am I arguing against the ability to sideload.
Is it impossible to believe that some people want to able to go into a curated store of items and not a free for all where shady individuals could take advantage of people? I'll let you know right now that there is ZERO reason for my mother to install a 3rd party app store. And I believe that to be true for the majority of users.
I wish people were better at understanding how comments like this make them come across. Like… it’s never feasible that people just disagree with you. It’s that they’ve been hoodwinked, brainwashed, or hypnotised.
There's nothing wrong with liking Apple's app store. I don't use Apple products, have never willingly used Apple products, and will not be using Apple products in the future, but this is crossing into Apple derangement syndrome.
I just don't want Apple purchasers to be trapped in a manipulative relationship with the company for the life of the product, and I want developers to have alternative ways of reaching the customers who want their products. I'm not interested in making Apple users do anything they don't want to do, and I don't understand what you get out of insulting the people who enjoy the way Apple runs things.
Is your sole aim to make Apple users defensive of the company? Because that's all this sort of talk is achieving.
How on earth does this jibe with the rest of your comment?
You immediately assert a fear that the removal of the walled garden would prevent you from doing a thing that the walled garden explicitly prevents.