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by Ambroos 669 days ago
I'm sorry but the way they interrupt the flow so many times is ridiculous. It would take minimal changes to make this flow non-disruptive but Apple wants users to drop off as much as possible during installation.
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Part of Apple's product pitch is "you can give this phone to No-Tech Uncle Steve, and it'll be fine"

Some of this interruption is to scare off users who will absolutely fuck up their phones with bitcoin mining apps, given the opportunity

You can argue whether this paternalistic approach to technology is appropriate for the entire userbase, but there are definitely a number of cases that Apple is doing a genuinely good thing for their users here.

>I'm sorry but the way they interrupt the flow so many times is ridiculous.

There's similar number of steps to trust a third party root certificate, or a set a third party DoH provider. Do you also think those tasks should be 1click as well?

Please, do enlighten us about how voluntarily installing a competing store is in any way similar to installing a third party root certificate.
They're both gatekeepers. One is for iOS apps, the other is for websites. I'm not sure how "voluntarily" is a relevant factor here. People can and do install alternate roots, especially back in the days when letsencrypt didn't exist and the WebTrust/CAB monopoly was charging tens to hundreds of dollars for certificates.
> They're both gatekeepers.

At some point, you go past squinting your eyes very hard straight into non sense you know.