[OT] Draconian computer company policies, was: Mobile LC Apps Downloading Stacks After installation

Fri Aug 11 10:44:42 EDT 2017

I cannot quite see how people are prepared to go on buying Apple iPads when
there are such draconian restrictions as to what one can run on them.

While the Android "thing" may not be much better, at last one can 
side-load almost anything one wants.

But, Like Richard Stallman, I suffer from the "horrible" belief that 
once one has bought something
it belongs to you and you should not be told what you can and cannot do 
with it.

OK, OK, I'm back off to the kitchen to carry on slicing vegetables with 
a roll of toliet paper.

There is a whole world of difference between a set of actions one cannot 
do because of the
physical limitations of a thing and a set of actions one is not allowed 
to do because a bunch of people
in California want to carry on mucking you around even after they ahve 
successfully manipulated you into buying their
over-priced product.

Currently trying to get my ASUS Intel Tablet  which runs Android to do a 
few things I want it to, but Google [wouldn't Douglas Adams
have a fit of the dry boak?] do want me to do with it.

Richmond.

On 8/11/17 5:35 pm, Jonathan Lynch via use-livecode wrote:
> If we could have our own LC App Store, where people could play an app with a player app on different platforms, it would be quite excellent.
>
> At the very least, I think Apple would object.
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
>> On Aug 11, 2017, at 10:09 AM, Roger Eller via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>>
>> Several companies HAVE their own app stores.  Samsung is one that comes to
>> mind.  http://joyofandroid.com/android-app-store-alternatives/
>>
>> ~Roger
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Aug 11, 2017 at 10:00 AM, Jonathan Lynch via use-livecode <
>> use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>>
>>> If Apple and Google allowed player apps that play external code, companies
>>> could essentially set up their own app stores, bypassing google play and
>>> iTunes.
>>> I cannot imagine either company would appreciate that.
>>>
>>> Sent from my iPhone
>>>
>>>> On Aug 11, 2017, at 9:52 AM, Ralph DiMola via use-livecode <
>>> use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>>>> Mark,
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for weighing in. I would like to read into those licenses that I
>>>> could update my core LCS, but I know in my soul that if I do that it's
>>> just
>>>> a shoe waiting to drop that could affect not only my license but the
>>> entire
>>>> LC community. I also feel that when I create an extra button(with stub
>>> code)
>>>> because a "data" update offers more options that I am staying within the
>>>> guidelines and the spirit of the App/Play store rules. I see this as
>>> simple
>>>> decision. I call it the "Johnny, did you eat a cookie?" scenario. Johnny
>>>> says "no" because he did not eat "A" cookie but ate 3 cookies. I am not
>>> a 2
>>>> year old and know what these rules were intended to prevent.
>>>>
>>>> By the way, I was once rejected because my data update "answer" dialog
>>> was
>>>> worded as "An app update is available". I explained that it was a data
>>>> update and not code and changed the verbiage of the dialog. I then passed
>>>> the review. Moral: The review team can look VERY close at any app during
>>>> review.
>>>>
>>>> As it was said in Goodfellows... At least, that's how I feel.
>>>>
>>>> Ralph DiMola
>>>> IT Director
>>>> Evergreen Information Services
>>>> rdimola at evergreeninfo.net
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: use-livecode [mailto:use-livecode-bounces at lists.runrev.com] On
>>> Behalf
>>>> Of Mark Waddingham via use-livecode
>>>> Sent: Friday, August 11, 2017 7:24 AM
>>>> To: How to use LiveCode
>>>> Cc: Mark Waddingham
>>>> Subject: Re: Mobile LC Apps Downloading Stacks After installation
>>>>
>>>>> On 2017-08-11 12:20, Jonathan Lynch via use-livecode wrote:
>>>>> I know the reviewers at app stores are not always careful, but
>>>>> something like an LC player would surely get their notice.
>>>> Review, from my understanding, is heavily automated (it has to be - if
>>> you
>>>> think of the scale of the App Stores these days). However, there is
>>> always a
>>>> means to get in contact with a human about specific issues (which can
>>> take a
>>>> while to get escalated with someone who can actually do something - but
>>> at
>>>> least it is possible).
>>>>
>>>>> They do allow us to import JS, but JS is way more sandboxed than LC.
>>>> Yes - this is true - however, as I noticed this morning Apple no longer
>>> have
>>>> their advisory about allowing arbitrary JS to be downloaded and run
>>> within a
>>>> WebView. This is simply because you can could build a host app which
>>> gives
>>>> access to every single OS API on iOS and make all of them callable from
>>> JS
>>>> (even if the JS bundled with the app does not use any of it).
>>>>
>>>> So, the point is the language is not the point - what the code running in
>>>> the language does is important.
>>>>
>>>> Like Google, Apple are wanting to know precisely what OS APIs your app is
>>>> calling at the point of review - so they have some idea of the surface
>>> area
>>>> of attack for any malicious intent. How much analysis they currently do,
>>>> no-one really knows - however the guidelines means that (in principal)
>>> they
>>>> have reasons to pull any apps very quickly if they find that they are
>>> doing
>>>> something which is 'not allowed'.
>>>>
>>>> Warmest Regards,
>>>>
>>>> Mark.
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Mark Waddingham ~ mark at livecode.com ~ http://www.livecode.com/
>>>> LiveCode: Everyone can create apps
>>>>
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