Just to share a bit…in my country we have had a huge influx of cases in android users getting scammed of their entire life savings because they were socially engineered/tricked to sideload malicious apps that basically allow the scammers full control of their phones, siphoning all their life savings away before they even realize what’s going on. These cases come up in the local news/online news once every 1-2 weeks.
These people aren’t all grandmas/grandpas either. They’re also young people in their 30s or middle-aged. They tried to purchase something on offer / complete a survey to get a gift, and were tricked to download apps to make orders / something similar, but ended up having their phones fully under the control of the scammers. The scammers then made use of their internet banking apps to siphon everything out while they were asleep. To make things worse, over here we have almost everyone on internet banking.
Definitely am not for iPhone being able to sideload apps. It is so dangerous for regular users. They wouldn’t understand what it means.
Just to share a bit…in my country we have had a huge influx of cases in android users getting scammed of their entire life savings because they were socially engineered/tricked to sideload malicious apps that basically allow the scammers full control of their phones, siphoning all their life savings away before they even realize what’s going on. These cases come up in the local news/online news once every 1-2 weeks.
These people aren’t all grandmas/grandpas either. They’re also young people in their 30s or middle-aged. They tried to purchase something on offer / complete a survey to get a gift, and were tricked to download apps to make orders / something similar, but ended up having their phones fully under the control of the scammers. The scammers then made use of their internet banking apps to siphon everything out while they were asleep. To make things worse, over here we have almost everyone on internet banking.
Definitely am not for iPhone being able to sideload apps. It is so dangerous for regular users. They wouldn’t understand what it means.
I support this statement 100%.
People still get scammed in other ways, apps that are bad actors aren’t the problem.
If it didn’t happen thru sideloading an app it would simply happen by accessing a website.
You can’t protect stupid people for too long when they don’t want to be protected. Let evolution do its thing.