{"id":32064,"date":"2021-04-05T16:58:29","date_gmt":"2021-04-05T20:58:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=32064"},"modified":"2021-10-15T15:16:37","modified_gmt":"2021-10-15T19:16:37","slug":"tim-cook-on-sideloading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/05\/tim-cook-on-sideloading\/","title":{"rendered":"Tim Cook on Sideloading"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2021\/04\/05\/tim-cook-sideloading-apps-would-break-the-iphone\/\">Sami Fathi<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MacRumors\/status\/1379034245713170438\">tweet<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2021\/04\/05\/tim-cook-sideloading-apps-would-break-the-iphone\/\"><p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/04\/05\/opinion\/is-apples-privacy-push-facebooks-existential-threat.html\">wide-ranging interview<\/a> with <em>The New York Times&rsquo;<\/em> Kara Swisher, on her podcast &ldquo;Sway,&rdquo; Apple CEO Tim Cook talks about Apple&rsquo;s feud with Facebook, its stance on privacy, Apple&rsquo;s legal battle with Epic Games, and possible future Apple innovations such as Apple Glasses.<\/p><p>[&#8230;]<\/p><p>One of  Epic Games&rsquo; biggest arguments about the Apple ecosystem is the lack of so-called &ldquo;freedom&rdquo; for users to download apps from places other than the  App Store. Many have long voiced their hope that Apple would allow users to sideload apps onto their device, such as the iPhone. Cook says that sideloading apps, however, would &ldquo;break the privacy and security&rdquo; model of the  iPhone.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2021\/02\/11\/north-dakota-bill-on-app-stores\/\">North Dakota Bill on App Stores<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/25\/potential\/\">Potential<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/29\/tim-cooks-app-store-testimony\/\">Tim Cook&rsquo;s App Store Testimony<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/22\/the-app-store-doesnt-make-apps-safe\/\">The App Store Doesn&rsquo;t Make Apps Safe<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/08\/bypassing-the-app-store\/\">Bypassing the App Store<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/03\/welcome-to-iphone\/\">Welcome to iPhone: Your Crappy Mac of Tomorrow, Today!<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p id=\"tim-cook-on-sideloading-update-2021-04-14\">Update (2021-04-14): <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2021\/04\/12\/tim-cook-epic-games-interview\/\">Joe Rossignol<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2021\/04\/12\/tim-cook-epic-games-interview\/\"><p>Notably, Cook said that Epic Games&rsquo; desire for Apple to let developers offer their own payment systems in apps &ldquo;would make the App Store a flea market&rdquo;:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>At the heart of the Epic complaint is they&rsquo;d like developers to each put in their own payment information. But that would make the App Store a flea market and you know the confidence level you have at the flea market.<\/p>\n<p>The volume of people going into such a market would be dramatically lower, which would be bad for the user, because they would miss out on the innovation like we just heard with the four developers. And the developers would be left out because they wouldn&rsquo;t have a huge audience to sell to. So nobody wins in that environment.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>This is some preztel logic. Of course, there are already lots of apps where customers enter payment information&mdash;just not apps selling certain kinds of digital services where Apple prohibits that.<\/p>\n\n<p>Apple&rsquo;s dictionary defines a flea market as &ldquo;a market, typically outdoors, selling secondhand goods,&rdquo; and the term comes from the idea that the resold items may be <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Flea_market\">infested with fleas<\/a>. Does an app become secondhand when you buy it directly from the developer rather than through Apple? Does Tim Cook think Apple is making sure there are no bugs?<\/p>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/keleftheriou\/status\/1382417827383037955\">Kosta Eleftheriou<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/keleftheriou\/status\/1382417827383037955\">\n<p>Apple has turned the magic of software development from &ldquo;How cool would this be?&rdquo; to &ldquo;How cool would Apple be with this?&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>That&rsquo;s an environment of software suppression, not innovation.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fosspatents.com\/2021\/04\/apple-expert-incorrectly-claims-apple.html\">Florian Mueller<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.fosspatents.com\/2021\/04\/apple-expert-incorrectly-claims-apple.html\">\n<p>Sooner than I&rsquo;d have thought, here&rsquo;s my first follow-up to the publication of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fosspatents.com\/2021\/04\/apple-submits-summaries-of-expert.html\">the summaries of Apple&rsquo;s expert witness reports in the <i>Epic Games v. Apple<\/i> App Store antitrust case<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>When I read those summaries for the first time, I tweeted about some of the statements I found in them. This is my tweet about the claim that Apple couldn&rsquo;t support <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fosspatents.com\/2021\/03\/central-issue-in-upcoming-epic-games-v.html\">alternative app stores<\/a> without not only software but even <b><i>hardware<\/i><\/b> changes.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p id=\"tim-cook-on-sideloading-update-2021-04-22\">Update (2021-04-22): See also: <a href=\"https:\/\/atp.fm\/425\">Accidental Tech Podcast<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sami Fathi (tweet): In a wide-ranging interview with The New York Times&rsquo; Kara Swisher, on her podcast &ldquo;Sway,&rdquo; Apple CEO Tim Cook talks about Apple&rsquo;s feud with Facebook, its stance on privacy, Apple&rsquo;s legal battle with Epic Games, and possible future Apple innovations such as Apple Glasses.[&#8230;]One of Epic Games&rsquo; biggest arguments about the Apple [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2021-04-05T20:58:32Z","apple_news_api_id":"baefec2a-4c38-441a-989a-29035a860687","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2021-10-15T19:16:40Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAABQ==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/Auu_sKkw4RBqYmikDWoYGhw","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2085,91,286,31,1837,355,48,2132,60],"class_list":["post-32064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-antitrust","tag-appstore","tag-interview","tag-ios","tag-ios-14","tag-privacy","tag-security","tag-sideloading","tag-timcook"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32064"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32064\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32245,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32064\/revisions\/32245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}