Reply to post: Free is more expensive than one thinks

Sure is wild that Apple, Google app store monopolies are way worse than what Windows got up to, sniffs Microsoft prez

naive

Free is more expensive than one thinks

Slaves get housing and food for "free", but I guess nobody would fancy becoming one.

It works the same for our "free" mobile Operating systems, we get it for free, but since it is for free we are in the mercy of its owner.

The sad thing is that app shops are not needed for security.

IoS and Android are both Unix based operating systems, which allow easy per app separation of privileges by assigning a different user-id for each app, I do not think there are apps in any of those stores running as root.

Apps just get access to devices like camera, phone, sms and others. If that is managed well, no app can influence others or access information we want to protect by limiting use of devices on the phone.

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