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0 pointszepto6y ago0 comments

You are clearly missing the point. Nobody is talking about people who ‘follow every instruction on a webpage’.

If you don’t think Facebook or Google could persuade people to install a store, you are out of contact with reality.

Once installed, those stores would be just as compromised as Google and Facebook have already proven themselves to be over and over again.

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simion3146y ago· 2 in thread

So the Apple users would read some instruction from Google to go into a hidden area of the Settings, tap some button 10 times, then lick Apple log 10 times, then enter into an input "I am aware that this is extremely risky and Steve Jobs will hate me" and then enable the different app store and later get infected AND they would complain to Apple "Why did you did not protect me from my stupidity, I did not knew what I was doing" , Really are this iOS users that stupid ? how could they use MacBooks without going monthly to a shop to remove viruses ? Or only iPhone users that don't have laptops are stupid?

zeptoOP6y ago

You seem to have lost track of the conversation. We are talking about Apple being mandated to allow sideloading.

They obviously wouldn’t be allowed to make it so difficult that nobody could be persuaded to do it, which defeats your point.

simion3146y ago

You lost the point too, this kind of systems are already used, do you even know how you enable side loading n Android? or disable secure boot on a PC ? have you seen the warrnings that appear when you allow a webpage access to your webcam ? Apple has designers that can create a UX that will stop 995 of idiots to enable a dangerous option without knowing what they are doing. You did not responded why is not apple protecting the laptop users from their own stupidity.

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