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rob53 said:

Beeper is hacking a Mac to get access. This is blatantly against Apple’s EULA agreement. People need to quit giving hackers a reason to have any product. 

Obviously wrong. An authorized user of the Mac uses his own credentials. Duh. And who cares what some "policy" says? Grow a nut and think for yourself.

"If Brexit is a failure it’s not because it is a failure, it would be because people who didn’t want it made it a failure."

What an absolutely horseshit assertion. You have nothing to justify that, since most of the blowback came from outside UK.

beautyspin said:

So, Apple vetted all these scam apps?

You think some government dotards are going to do BETTER? What an absolutely brain-dead assertion.

I agree that the U.S. government needs to take a stand here, as well as Apple. Apple's behavior toward developers in regard to its app store is often disgraceful, and yes Apple lies about App Store search. But it's their platform and it's not a monopoly. There is no excuse for this trade interference, and the USA should threaten countermeasures if it's perpetrated.

I think Apple is correct about the security threats. But Apple's behavior toward developers, and the shambolic fraud that is App Store "search" has earned Apple a big fat HA-HA.

Hopefully sideloading will allow developers to address longstanding gaps in iPhone functionality. But of course that'll rely on private frameworks, which Apple will pettily alter with every update in order to disable these apps.

Remember when Apple disabled pretty much all third-party headphone dongles? We'll see if sideloaders can actually make use of the I/O on the iPhone. When Apple finally does replace the POS Lightning port with USB-C (if indeed they do), you know "official" developers will still be denied access to it.