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Comment by TillE | Hacker News Reader

> To help protect against unsafe apps, Apple is discussing the idea of mandating certain security requirements even if software is distributed outside its store. Such apps also may need to be verified by Apple

I'm sure they'll at least require notarization with their $99/year developer program, in line with macOS, where it's an increasingly enormous pain to run unsigned apps.

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I'm using the newest macOS (Ventura) and I have no problem running unsigned apps.

I don't understand where people get the impression from that it's a huge pain to run unsigned apps on macOS. It's a matter of executing

  sudo spctl --master-disable

and then changing a setting in System Preferences and that's it.

And the review process will cost €1 per line of code.

One line of code that points to an external source :)

Just don't use line breaks.

Breaking news: Apple switches to Python as language to build applications for iOS.

eval exists :)

I know it is contrary to HN guidelines to discuss comment votes, but this is weirdly my most downvoted comment of all time. In almost 13 years of commentating I have never had a comment receive -4 points before.

It's because app notarization doesn't involve review. It's an ahead of time virus scanning and they presumably archive the apps as well to be able to go back later and find equivalents when new malware is identified, but notarization itself is fully automated and takes only a minute or two.

That mistake isn't worth downvoting you, though.

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