[overstay8930]

I worry about my family both young and old who all had adware and malware ridden Android phones before I got them iPhones.

The vast majority of people use smartphones against their will and have no desire to learn anything about the magical Facebook machine in their hands.

They press buttons and things happen, who cares what the dialog box says, they press the button that will get them doing what they want to do the fastest, who cares if it said whatever they were doing is dangerous. This is how most people view their phones, and why there are Android botnets and not iOS botnets.

[peoplefromibiza]

> who all had adware and malware ridden Android phones before I got them iPhones.

In all fairness nothing changes. You are happy with the store? Stay on the store!

But I am an adult, a developer with 25 years of experience and enjoy hacking.

It is my right to pretend from Apple to let me install whatever I want on the device I bought and own 100% and to not be patronizing.

Put the damn setting somewhere hard to activate accidentally and require triple authorisation if it need to be, but stop playing games.

Thanks

[isodev]

All of your concerns are actually solvable through software … if Apple were willing to work on it. But doing that doesn’t bring a lot of revenue so they keep pushing the narrative how the entire category of applications is malicious or risky.