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You need to pay a subscription to run your own code on your own device? Why anyone puts up with Apple's anticonsumerism is beyond me.
Security. Privacy. Long term support of hardware (environment). No carrier crapware.
> Security
This is arguable. The amount of CVEs is pretty high for a closed-source platform. Several of those CVEs were exploited in the wild for years before being fixed.
Unfortunately this is true for the other commonly-used mobile OS as well.
I don’t see this being any worse than their competitors, and the long term support of hardware means that when they fix them you’re more likely to get the fix.
You're masquerading a religious issue (absoluteness of control of execution of compiled code on device) as a security issue.
It is really simple: By requiring signed binaries, it significantly raises the barrier of entry to malware authors.
Does it solve it? No. Also no one said it did. But it certainly makes it less of a free for all.
Do I trust Apple to make sound decisions to prevent myself from being owned by some random s-kiddie (without talent)? Yes. They have demonstrated they are serious about a robust defense of the user's privacy and device security.
Just my $.02