So basically, you can be draconian in managing how a user uses their app, in the name of "malware". Sorta like how content filters on "extremist material" and "child pornography".
User wants a legal porn app? Nope, but it's OK cause you didn't get malware. Ditto for any kind of app that Apple doesn't feel fits their brand.
There's nothing wrong with having explicit, manual, escape hatches. In your haste to hold Apple up as the great wall against malware, you forget they've completely taken away choice from the user. Considering it's the Electronic Freedom Foundation, that seems like a legitimate thing to complain about.
It's the Electronic Frontier Foundation, as their banner proudly says, but you're right that the spin here is on security.
The sentiment these days with regards to restricting user freedom seems to be not "think of the children", but "think of the security." I'm guessing it reaches a wider audience: the rhetoric is basically "who doesn't want to be secure?" ...everyone who doesn't want their devices secured against them.
User wants a legal porn app? Nope, but it's OK cause you didn't get malware. Ditto for any kind of app that Apple doesn't feel fits their brand.
There's nothing wrong with having explicit, manual, escape hatches. In your haste to hold Apple up as the great wall against malware, you forget they've completely taken away choice from the user. Considering it's the Electronic Freedom Foundation, that seems like a legitimate thing to complain about.