Re: Illegal under the DMA
“That’s what a sandbox is”. Is it really? Because *Apple customers* think that by far the most important bit of the sandbox is the review process of what is allowed onto the Apple App Store in the first place. It’s *you* who has too limited a technical understanding to understand what the sandbox is. Process wins over technical guardrail every time. And you know this perfectly well (or should do) as an IT professional.
Except when it doesn't.
Process is not perfect, which is why we (should) have defence in depth.
For employers that give their staff locked-in laptops, who have an IT policy as to what programs they can install…..how impressed do you think they would be, if a user decided to install a “sandbox” on their laptop? “But it’s a sandbox, it should be able to contain any malware”. That employee would get fired. Because it’s insecure.
In 99.999% of cases it's a perfectly reasonable policy, but once again there should be defence in depth.
And I own *my* iPhone. *I* should have the right to install whatever *policies* I like to ensure my own security. And I’ve chosen to outsource hire Apple as my IT department, to vet the security for stuff I don’t want to waste my time with. What business is that of yours, to decide that I’m not allowed to do that?
You are. Who said you couldn't? You can stick to the App Store and stick with the clunky albatross that is Safari.
We've already seen Apple's review process is not perfect and now we know that security in iOS is not as good as it should be because they daren't let 3rd party browsers run PWAs and they want to make third party app stores economically unviable, but carry on insisting that the Emperor's clothes look great.
The DMA will be good for Apple if they follow it instead of trying to fight it because it means they will have to up their game instead of relying on Steve Jobs' fading RDF.