Tim Cook Tells Users Who Want Sideloading To Get an Android

The war on Apple against sideloading continues and Tim Cook makes a surprising statement that shows how much he hates side loading.

While speaking at the New York Times “DealBook” summit, Tim Cook said

“I think that people have that choice today, Andrew, if you want to sideload, you can buy an Android phone. That choice exists when you go into the carrier shop. If that is important to you, then you should buy an Android phone. From our point of view, it would be like if I were an automobile manufacturer telling [a customer] not to put airbags and seat belts in the car. He would never think about doing this in today's time. It's just too risky to do that. And so it would not be an iPhone if it didn't maximize security and privacy.”

This is pretty shocking coming from Tim but it really shouldn’t be. Most of the people that are calling for sideloading on iOS already use Android and the ones that don’t most likely aren’t gonna switch to Android over this but even if they do it's a very very small minority.

This argument indirectly says that macOS isn’t safe because macOS allows sideloading so this kind of shoots themselves in the foot and proves that their arguments are really backed by nothing.

This is all coming after South Korea passed new laws that prohibit platform owners from limiting developers to using only a single payment method for in-app purchases.

This is a sticky situation for Apple, but what do you think? Thanks for reading.