[thih9]

There is the danger that users aren't educated and would accept everything the app does. I'd say casual users want and expect some kind of protection.

Is that fine? If yes, I guess we'd need to make the "install anything" option sufficiently inaccessible to the regular user. Is that ok? In this case is Apple's Dev Program an acceptable solution?

I'm asking lots of questions, because I genuinely wouldn't know how to approach this. What this difficult is that I'm fine with the current state. I don't use my phone for hacking and I'm happy that someone else monitors apps, even if it means that I have to pay more or go through additional steps to run my own code.

[jayd16]

Windows, Android and MacOS just throw up big scary full screen warnings. We're not in uncharted territory.

[thih9]

Windows and MacOS have a different user base (I'd guess most non-tech users prefer mobile for personal use).

Android's big scary full screen warnings didn't seem to work, people allowed weather apps to read their messages. I was referring to this in my earlier message:

> There is the danger that users aren't educated and would accept everything the app does. I'd say casual users want and expect some kind of protection.