Tim Cook: Sideloading is a disaster and proposed App Store reforms would harm user privacy and security

Tim Cook: Sideloading is a disaster and proposed App Store reforms would harm user privacy and security

Tim Cook has claimed that proposed reforms to the App Store are "not in the best interests of the user" and would "destroy the security of the iPhone."


Cook was speaking remotely at the Brut. America conference, where he was interviewed by the company's CEO Guillaume Lacroix.


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"What we do at Apple is always focus intently on the user and what is in their best interests. The current DMA language that is being discussed would force sideloading on the iPhone, and this would be an alternate way of getting apps onto the iPhone," Cook said.

"That would destroy the security of the iPhone and a lot of the privacy initiatives that we've built into the App Store, where we have privacy nutrition labels, and app-tracking transparency, ..

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