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Tobias Horvath Jul 30, 2023

And another #unpopularopinion on the Digital Markets Act. lol. Everyone will hate me: Side-loading will make everything worse. The current model of trust in the App Store (I agree some of it is security theater and most of it is Apple wanting a huge monetary piece of the pie, which is why we're at this point in the first place) paired with sandboxing and limited access to APIs is a very fine line to walk. iOS does so better than anyone else and yet they improve upon it with every release.

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Tobias Horvath

I used to think, “Well if Apple just made a sandboxing system that goes beyond the App Store and is also enforced on side-loaded apps, it'd be great!”, but sandboxing alone isn't a solution. We need a steward that decides on a case-by-case basis access to APIs that allow profile building on users. APIs that can and will be abused. And the likes of Meta would simply make their own store and force people to use it, count on it. We'd be worse off than we are right now.