On: Google suspends some business with Huawei

[brownbat]

Agree in principle, though can't we get that by just allowing unauthorized sources?

I guess you don't get the relative security of app stores, and there's no widespread culture of free apps on phones like on PCs.

I'd really love, not a new phone or OS, but just an app store that works under a different model. Cheap or free for developers to post, but curated to exclude the most predatory forms of monetization.

[brownbat → brownbat]

I thought about this more this week.

How do we solve the trusted app problem on PCs?

We don't install whatever random thing comes up in google. We look for a trusted recommendation.

App stores are just teaching us that it's ok to install any app, which is not necessarily the best security model.