🗞️ The App-splosion Cometh?
The heat got too high for Apple so it’s leaving the exclusive App Store kitchen. In Europe. But, just like security backdoors, if you put the opening there for one party, others will soon follow. And this could only be the first domino of many to fall (camera, browser, and the infrastructure that enables Apple Pay (NFC) are mentioned).
I’m interested to see how Apple handles the security aspects of these openings. Android is rife with malware (Bible apps are a popular vehicle) and, while iOS is not invulnerable, that security has long been part of its appeal. (Mac users sideload apps all the time without issues so a lot of Apple’s grandstanding is just to protect their current mafioso approach to the App Store.)