Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorTo Tim Cook, Apple’s chief executive officer, letting iPhone users “sideload” apps — that is, install them from sources outside the tech giant’s App Store — would be tantamount to making a car that didn’t have airbags or seatbelts.For Apple, “It’s just too risky to do that,” Cook said about the prospect of allowing app sideloading on iPhones, speaking in a prerecorded interview that streamed Tuesday at the New York Times’ DealBook Online Summit. “It wouldn’t be an iPhone if it didn’t maximize security and privacy.”Cook asserted that “people have that choice today” if they want to sideload apps: “If you want to sideload, you can buy an Android phone… If that’s important to you, then you should buy an Android.
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