> I'm genuinely interested in hearing from people who believe that Apple and Google should have a monopoly on deciding what apps people can run on their phones.
It’s not so much that I prefer that Apple/Google can decide what I can install on my phone, it’s that I prefer that they decide for my mother and father who click on every ‘accept’ button without reading to just get it out of the way, or my aunt who forwards every facebook scam she encounters and every a-technical person in my life who I would have to bail out time and again if this were not the case.
If there was an option in the settings menu to disable this, would you be worried about your mother and father finding it and changing it from the (safe) default?
Despite the "review" process at Google, my grandparents still managed to infect their Android devices with all kinds of malicious apps (mostly adware).
Interestingly, neither have ever installed a virus on their Windows PCs.
It’s not so much that I prefer that Apple/Google can decide what I can install on my phone, it’s that I prefer that they decide for my mother and father who click on every ‘accept’ button without reading to just get it out of the way, or my aunt who forwards every facebook scam she encounters and every a-technical person in my life who I would have to bail out time and again if this were not the case.