344: ‘Devastation, Pessimism, and Rage’, With Glenn Fleishman
The Talk Show With John Gruber
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The Privacy and Security Issue of Side Loading
Apple sent out notifications to 70% of the aps and apstore. If your ap is more than a couple years old and hasn't been up dated, it might be to 70%. So you have these communications that occur without co operation. I think apple is clever enough to create a side loading process that requires enough hoops to go through that it would dramatically reduce the interest in most people in using it. And only a small number of people would wind up disabling safeguards and installing malwar that would overcome apples internal safeguards.
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