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Comment by Craig Federighi

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Apple SVP of Software Engineering
[...] Pandora’s box of unreviewed, malware-ridden software and deny everyone the option of iPhone’s secure approach. [...] Sideloading is a cybercriminal’s best friend. And requiring that on iPhone would be a gold rush for the malware industry.
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Grant developers the right to interoperate with large platforms without permission
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Disputed The Axios URL does contain this exact two-sentence wording and attributes it to Craig Federighi, but contemporaneous reports/transcript-style coverage of the same Web Summit 2021 speech give materially different wording: the 'Pandora’s box' remark is reported as part of a longer sentence about 'creating choice' and 'malware-ridden software,' and the later line is reported as 'sideloading is a cybercriminal’s best friend,' not 'criminal’s best friend.' So the submitted text appears to be an altered/spliced version rather than a clean verbatim quote. ([axios.com](https://www.axios.com/2021/11/03/apple-app-store-web-summit-eu)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 19d ago
AI Unverifiable Source URL (axios.com Nov 2021 article on Apple Web Summit) returns HTTP 403 from WebFetch. Web search across multiple outlets confirms Craig Federighi made these remarks at Web Summit 2021 in Lisbon: he warned of a 'Pandora's box of unreviewed, malware-ridden software' and called sideloading 'a cybercriminal's best friend' (the YouCongress quote uses the slight paraphrase 'criminal's best friend', which is widely reported the same way). Vote (Against 'Grant developers the right to interoperate with large platforms without permission') aligns with Apple's anti-sideloading stance. Marking ai_unverifiable per protocol because I cannot directly fetch the source. · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-7 · 1mo ago
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