Apple is preparing to split the App Store "in two" in the coming weeks ahead of European Union requirements that will force Apple to enable...
  • stoly@lemmy.worldEnglish
    540·
    8 months ago

    LOL this is not a hypothetical. there are already bad apps in the regular app store. now you have two.

    also Android has nothing on the security posture of Apple.

    • lolcatnip@reddthat.comEnglish
      343·
      8 months ago

      So you admit having a walled garden doesn’t protect you from malicious apps, but you still want on to…protect you from malicious apps?

      • stoly@lemmy.worldEnglish
        331·
        8 months ago

        I just want you to envision a moment where the opportunity for two bad things happening is worse than one.

        Honestly I really don’t get the anger here except that everyone has decided that opening the floodgates is the only way forward.

        • wearling0600@lemmy.worldEnglish
          13·
          8 months ago

          So then… continue using exclusively Apple’s store then?

          If you consider Apple to be the gold standard for security, you have just keep going as you are.

          I don’t see how giving other people the freedom to choose infringes on your security.

          • Pluckerpluck@programming.devEnglish
            61·
            8 months ago

            No you fool! Don’t you see that because Wish exists buying from Best Buy is also a scam?!

            Honestly I don’t get people like this. Are they trying to protect other people? I’ve never seen it framed that way, but it’s the only reasonable explanation.