Apple: Sideloading is the DEVIL!
Date:
Wed, 15 Jun 2022 18:24:57 GMT
Description:
Apple, Google, and others are attempting to demonize the act of installing software. We can't let them succeed.
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Apple released a White Paper (which is code for propaganda pretending to be research) entitled Building a Trusted Ecosystem for Millions of Apps .
The entire purpose of this White Paper is to make the case that Sideloading
of applications onto an iOS device would bring about the end of life as we know it. From the White Paper:
Allowing sideloading would degrade the security of the iOS platform and
expose users to serious security risks not only on third-party app stores,
but also on the App Store.
So what is Sideloading?
Allow me to define it for you:
sideloading (verb) [ sahyd loh ding ]
The act of installing software on a real computer.
The term sideloading is a pretty new one in this context. Here, Apple uses it to mean installing software without using Apples proprietary, locked down, restrictive, anti-competitive software store. This is why they use the word sideloading and dont simply call this action what it has always been called installing software .
By giving the normal, expected, reasonable activity of installing software
on the computer you purchased a new name sideloading they can begin to demonize the term. To use it to scare you.
Oh, gosh! Sideloading! That has security problems! People will steal my data! Ill probably get a virus!
This is a commonly used strategy when trying to convince people that
something (good or benign) which they have always done or always thought is actually quite bad. Possibly even bum bum bum! evil .
Create a new word (or take an existing one), give it the definition of the thing you are trying to discredit, then begin to demonize the new word.
For example, the following simply sounds ridiculous:
Installing software on the computer you own is dangerous!
But this
Sideloading is dangerous!
That is a story which, if repeated often enough , can be sold. People can be convinced.
The key for Apples success in convincing the public (and lawmakers) that installing software outside of Apples store is bad is for news outlets to consistently use the terminology of sideloading when talking about the topic, instead of phrases like installing software.
This is key: The more articles, blogs, tweets and videos use the term sideloading when talking about whether or not installing software is
dangerous the more people will begin to equate sideloading with dangerous.
And the more people that make that mental connection the more likely it will be that companies (like Apple) will be able to lock down systems ever
further. Quickly turning computers into devices that we all have decreasing amounts of freedoms on (freedom to repair, freedom to install).
It is critically important that people be reminded what sideloading actually is: The ability to install the software you want, the way you want, on the computer you own.
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Link to news story:
https://lunduke.substack.com/p/apple-sideloading-is-the-devil
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