Apple CEO Cook: If you want to sideload the app, please buy an Android phone

On November 10, according to a foreign media MacRumors report, Apple CEO Cook once again talked about the relationship between Apple products and side-loaded apps at the DealBook Summit, and responded to questions about Apple's privacy policy.

In the discussion surrounding the App Store and how users download and install apps on the iPhone, Apple CEO Tim Cook said that users who hope that side-loading apps should consider buying an Android device, because the experience provided by the iPhone can maximize their " Security and privacy".

"I think people are free to choose today. If you want to sideload apps, you can buy an Android phone." Cook believes that users now have the ability to both need a secure and protected platform and an ecosystem that allows sideloading. Make a choice between the people.

In addition, Cook also compared Apple to a car manufacturer. Cook said that allowing users to install side-loaded apps is like a car manufacturer selling a car without airbags or seat belts, and said that this is too "risky".

Craig Federighi, Apple’s senior vice president of software engineering, said that sideloading is "the best friend of cybercriminals." If you download software from the Internet at will, the safety of mobile phone users will not be guaranteed; therefore, the App Store created by Apple Can protect the user's software security.

In a paper published by Apple in October, Apple stated that Android smartphones are attacked by malware 15 times to 47 times as often as iPhones. The main reason is that Android smartphones allow "side-loading" software​.