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saagarjha on Dec 11, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Cydia, the original app store, sues Apple on antit...

> iOS may have other flaws, but worrying that your iPhone is going to be locked by a Bitcoin hacker isn't one of them.

This is enforced by the platform sandbox, not the App Store. They are entirely separate things.

quesera on Dec 11, 2020 [–]

An alternate App Store would operate outside the sandbox though, right?

Otherwise, the alternate App Store would be relegated to installing apps within its own sandbox. And people would continue to howl about it.

saagarjha on Dec 11, 2020 | [–]

The app could just hand off installation to the privileged system daemon that can do that part for it.

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