Apple’s rejection of Hey calendar app revives an old feud - eviltoast
Basecamp founder and app creator David Heinemeier Hansson referred to Apple’s decision as “bullying tactics.”

• Apple rejects Hey calendar app for not allowing non-paying users to do anything within the app.

• Hey had previously faced a similar rejection from Apple for its original iOS app four years ago.

• Hey plans to fight Apple’s decision, but the specific approach is not yet known.

  • LazaroFilm@lemmy.worldEnglish
    61·
    10 months ago

    Mac has a good-ish solution where you need to go into settings to allow unapproved apps. It’s not a pop up. You need to go there manually.

    • Zoolander@lemmy.worldEnglish
      21·
      10 months ago

      It’s not that great of a solution, though. I dunno if anyone remembers but, when Gatekeeper (the interface to do this) first was added to MacOS, it was in response to a malware “virus scanner” that was out called MacKeeper. It was advertised as a malware scanner/Mac maintenance tool but it was just an ad platform that would inject all kinds of crap into your browser and run all kinds of keyloggers and things in the background.

      As soon as Gatekeeper was released, the MacKeeper website made a specific page that had step-by-step instructions for how to disable Gatekeeper and it would prompt you to visit the page if MacKeeper ever made it onto your system. If you ever re-enabled it, it would prompt you to disable again and show you the instructions.

      It’s an endless cat and mouse game. The only way this works is if they put it in as a multi-step terminal process. Novice users will not fuck with the terminal unless they know what they’re doing and are comfortable with the consequences.

    • stevehobbes@lemy.lolEnglish
      33·
      10 months ago

      Apple does that for enterprise profiles and vpn profiles on iOS. Guaranteed you can talk most people into doing that without much trouble.

      • LazaroFilm@lemmy.worldEnglish
        6·
        10 months ago

        You can trick anyone into doing stupid things. That’s why scam and phishing exists. I also remember tricking kids on counterstrike to format their C: drive to “activate cheats”

        • stevehobbes@lemy.lolEnglish
          42·
          10 months ago

          Sure, but it’s infinitely harder on iOS to install malware, spyware or something else, I’m sure you’d agree. How many times have you looked at someone complaining about their computer being slow and they have 74 browser weather extensions and bars all siphoning data and doing who knows what.

          It’s also easier to track down the publisher of a scam app to figure out who’s doing the scamming.

          Simply put, I have less to worry about with older folks in my life using iOS than something else.