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Comment by Craig Federighi

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Apple SVP of Software Engineering
It could open up a Pandora's box of unreviewed malware and software. Sideloading is a criminal's best friend. AI Unverifiable source (2021)
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Grant developers the right to interoperate with large platforms without permission

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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 · 10d ago
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