With just a couple of clicks, Android s can go outside the Google Play Store and make their own decision on what site to trust when ing an app.
Apple fights against sideloading by claiming it will destroy the security of iPhone. The company’s extreme policy has stirred controversy and landed in courts, even reaching the U.S. Supreme Court for monopolizing the market. From the Epic-Fortnite case to companies censoring content to remain on the store and blacklisted apps, the App Store has its fair share of problems.
Apple’s CEO Tim Cook used the stage at the IAPP Summit 2022 to attack sideloading. Painting a rather bleak and ominous picture, the CEO presented a villain-hero story, where evil characters were played by the “data industrial complex,” companies out to rob people of their data. The hero in this story was Apple’s tight App Store policies that “keep s safe” by preventing them from ing apps that the company does not approve. The full speech is available to watch via the IAPP's YouTube channel.
Apple’s App Store Business And Cook’s Bedtime Stories
As reported by the App Store exerts control with ionate opening and closing statements. Cook called privacy “the most essential battle of our times,” then linked malware, phishing, and con artists with companies that profit from gathering data. Cook compared these “evil” companies with a stranger that follows a parent while they take their child to school. The CEO assured that Apple will continue to voice its for no-sideloading regulations.
Apple’s mantra on the issue is that it gives s choices by stopping sideloading to prevent privacy breaches. However, many simply view Apple's App Store policies as not in place to maintain security, but to control, and to serve business, the Apple business. Apple’s paternalistic position, making decisions in name of a 's security, is unlikely to withstand the ing of time. In the end, Apple will most likely have to find a way to open up, or find new bedtime stories for Tim Cook to tell the public during privacy events.
Source: IAPP/YouTube, TechCrunch