As far as I can tell this basically means that all apps must be approved by Apple to follow their “platform policies for security and privacy” even if publishing on a third party app store. They will also disable updating apps from third party app stores if you stay outside the EU for too long (even if you are a citizen of an EU country, with an Apple account set to the EU region).
The idea that preventing app updates is in line with their claims of protecting security is utterly absurd. “Never attibute to malice what can be explained with stupidity,” but Apple isn’t stupid.
“Never attibute to malice what can be explained with stupidity,”
With corporations I feel like the opposite should apply.
There is an ‘adequately’ missing. It somewhat counters the excuse of malice.
If you can’t adequately attribute it to stupidity it has to be malice (or at least negligence).
For corporations it is, “Never attribute to malice what can be explained by greed.”
For a lot of corporations, malice and greed are pretty much the same thing. When a business decision is justified by “Who cares? Do it anyway.” the distinction is a matter of words, not actions.
It’s not malice though, it’s cold, unfeeling greed. Malice implies they want to cause harm; all they want is to extract maximum profit. Sometimes it’s by being malicious, sometimes it’s by being altruistic, for instance pretending to care about an oppressed minority in order to improve their image. The only decision is “will the cost of this action be less than the profit it makes?”
