skippingrock

Yay, I get more screen space back. I always muted them and wished we could hide them. Now I won’t have to!

pwrmac said:

Verstager is an idiot. What should she choose: Privacy and security or malware and data grabbers/collectors?

You mean "State sponsored" data grabber/collectors… the back doors they want, and they'll force you to side-load it when you come into their country.

I'll be sticking to the last iOS version that doesn't allow this BS.

Basically, I think that this is all a ploy, they don't really care about giving users "choice" in fact they want to take away choice by being able to side-load "back doors" into iOS. Call me crazy or paranoid, but just watch, this is what will happen and you can guess the first countries that will mandate this.

If this does get forced upon Apple I hope that they are allowed to have a version of iOS that allows this cr*p and another that doesn't and let the user decide which one they want to install on their devices and let the users speak with their own actions. I think the EU might be surprised. The last thing that I want to happen is to arrive in some country and be forced to side-load an app that will track my movements, download all of my contacts, monitor my browsing or other things that would never get past the security features of Apps found on the Apple iOS Store. If I have the Apple only iOS installed they wouldn't be able to do this without reformatting my iPhone and they wouldn't get away with doing that as easily nor have the time.