| > I think Apple has a good claim that this is a factual statement that is used as a security warning I would hope that the technical protections protecting user data apply to all apps and not just apps that come from Apple's store. If an app from the store wants to access your contacts or your location, the user has to approve it. Should be exactly the same with side loaded apps. Vender lock in such as a core operating system feature that can only be accessed with Apple approved apps would be blatant anti-competitive behaviour. > Google have something like this when you sideload (or allow sideloading option, don't remember exactly when you get these warnings) and EU did not consider it "anti-competitive" (at least yet). The EU and the USA have both found those warnings to be anti-competitive. In the EU's case, they have the same deadline as Apple to fix it. In the USA, Google was recently fined several hundred million dollars (and will also be required to change the alerts). I'm sure there will be some warnings, but it they will have to be reasonable - such as "[Name] is an app you downloaded from the internet. Are you sure you want to open it? Safari downloaded this app today from [Website URL]" - that's the message you get right now side-loading an app on a Mac, I think it would be hard for Apple to justify anything more "scary" than that. |
What I'm saying is that it already happens for apps from the App Store, where it asks you to allow access to contacts for example. But one of your choices is "always allow". I'm saying for third party store apps, they remove the "always allow" option. Make you approve it every time, to remind you that it's happening.