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ericthehalfbee said:

They won’t have to follow any rules, other than those that are part of the operating system (iOS). Like Apps not being allowed to access storage outside their sandbox or trying to access iMessage.

However, a lot of things Apple checks for have nothing to do with APIs or iOS restrictions. For example, does your App contain pornography? Does it pass your personal details to other 3rd parties to monetize your data? Does it allow you to enter a credit card number for payments and then use that number later to commit fraud?

Even if an App is playing by the rules of the APIs and iOS it can still do a lot of other shady stuff 

So, just because a sideloaded app would have pornographic content, it's shady? Please.  BTW, sideloaded apps would still be sandboxed, and there will be no way to get around that since it's enforced at the OS.

kempathonnodge said:

I agree that sideloading is dangerous, not because of the inherent risk of having non-verified code, which is manageable on the same way as on iOS. The risk here, is others have said, is that companies like Facebook can delete their App Store versions of apps, and therefore have none of the privacy enhancing features that apple has spent the last decade fighting for. No nutrition labels, no limits on tracking.

The bill is about giving everyone choice - for app makers to choose how their apps are distributed, and for device owners to have full control over what software they can install on their personally owned property, and from where they get that software. And just like Facebook could choose to remove their app from the App Store, you could then choose not to install their hypothetical sideloadable replacement. If you choose to stick with the App Store, great. But a device's owner should be the only and ultimate gatekeeper over what apps are installed - not Apple.

What a ridiculous, misinformed, clickbait article. Nobody's thermostats are being tampered with. They opted into a program that allows this, and in exchange they receive financial perks on their power bill (including the power company providing the smart thermostats to them for free). This article needs a major overhaul, or to be retracted completely.

I have been reading AI for over 20 years, but if you keep churning out trash like this, you will quickly fall off of my bookmarks. There are plenty of other reputable sites covering Apple that post the same news as you do, just as timely. Clearly they are more informed about the topics they are reporting.

Engadget similarly posted a trash story about smart thermostats a few years back (here), and I promptly removed them from my news feed and have not been back.

djames4242 said:

I'm waiting to find out if there will be any way to run x64 software virtualized. I run a lot of server tools within Docker containers, and losing this would likely force me (and a lot of other developers) on to commodity hardware running Linux...

Docker already runs on arm64 (I actually run it on an rpi4 for home automation), so Docker Desktop for MacOS will be likely ready for Apple Silicon on day 1. Most containerized products, especially open source servers like prometheus, haproxy, mariadb, nginx, etc., already provide docker images for arm64. You can check their repository listings check if they support arm64, and file issues if they do not. Millions of people around the world use these tools, so there is no reason they will not become available rather quickly.