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How does having the ability to personally opt out of the walled garden prevent others from staying in the garden? You may not want to opt out of the garden but I don't see why you would want to deny that the others? Surely they can decide for themselves.

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well, I can see an argument against this. Non tech user sees an app they want, they download it, app says you have to do this and this, OK the user says, and they've just opened their phone to everything.

This has already been abused with simple things like location and microphone, with people giving apps access to everything.

I think the current solution is sub optimal, but I like having the security on my iPhone to download anything and be fairly confident it won't send all my details to some credit acrd number collecting hacker.

This is a (unpleasant) app that can only be installed on devices which this company already has full device control of. We aren’t talking about your security from unwittingly downloading something nefarious.

This is no different from you writing a pornhub app on your own iOS device using your own developer account and Apple reaching in and saying “nuh uh, not on our, I mean your device”...

But that's okay! People are allowed to make stupid decisions. Can we stop treating non-technical users like children please?

Fair enough.

Your snark is unwarranted though.

You are probably right. I apologize.

thanks

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