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Apple Accused of Running a ‘Walled Garden’ by Canadian Legal Watchdog CIPPIC (www.iphoneincanada.ca)

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The Samuelson-Glushko Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic, or CIPPIC, is described as “Canada‘s first and only public interest technology law clinic” and is operated out of University of Ottawa’s Faculty of Law

Peter Nowak is also covering this at his substack.

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[-] CeeBee_Eh@lemmy.world 22 points 2 weeks ago

Many of the secondary app stores just don’t have the resources and tools to keep users safe.

What in the actual hell are you talking about? F-Droid and other open source stores are doing a better job at keeping out malware than Google Play Store itself is doing.

[-] rekabis@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 week ago

Perhaps. But F-Droid in particular has some pretty serious issues that cannot just be hand-waved away.

[-] CeeBee_Eh@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Yeah... So I read through that, and those aren't the "pretty serious issues" you think they are.

To be clear, they aren't inconsequential, but they're not "serious".

For example, complaining about the UX doesn't equate to a security problem. A lower target for the Android API also doesn't equate to security issues. It can be a contributing factor to security, but if your device can't even install a lower API then that's not an issue anyways.

There are some valid points made by the author, but a lot of it is sabre rattling by making those points seem like dangerous security mountains.

Edit: spelling