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I'm not going to argue we should close all banks or whatever ridiculous argument people come up with just because someone lost money. The only way to 100% prevent scams is to remove the potential entirely. There are scams, infinite actually, right now, on iPhones. Do you support that? Surely not, so we should lock iPhones down more no? Ideally, we ban smartphones altogether, to prevent scams. Oh you don't support tha…
The comparison to banks is actually pretty interesting. Unlike app developers, banks are by default directly liable for fraud that happens on their system. In many cases, even when someone gets their bank to send money to a scammer, they can still get that money back. Since the bank doesn't want to risk regulatory reprisal, they have a lower threshold for spending money to make customers whole. Exceptions and subtlet…
We have highly secure repos on other platforms. I would argue the Debian repos are much, much more secure than the App Store. The safety and security argument against it is, simply put, wrong. It is incorrect, it should not be humored. The fact people genuinely believe only Apple can securely audit software is ridiculous, poorly thought out, and obvious corporate propaganda.
If we want iPhones to be more secure, we need to take a closer look at the permission system. What we don't need to do is let Apple continue their profiteering. And make no mistake, the singular goal of the App Store is profiteering. Security is not a goal, otherwise they would only allow open source apps that they audit. But no, they allow closed source apps which use private APIs and they do not give a fuck. And that's why there's quite a lot of malware on the App Store, and much less in the Debian repos. Despite one being run by a multi-trillion dollar corporation, and the other being run by volunteers. It's time to call spades, spades.