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Let's take another example: iOS and Android. iOS is allows only
signed
software to be run on it. All software run locally on this operating
system must be acquired only from the iTunes store.
No, you can sideload apps with iOS devices, probably even using Linux
and the imobiledevice utilities, and certainly with XCode on OSX.
Android operates
similarly by default, allowing only carrier-installed software and
content from the Google Play store, but it also offers an option in
the settings to allow users to install packages from elsewhere as well.
Mozilla in this metaphor is striving to become iOS
Best get the metaphor technically correct then ;)
> : you can only
> install Mozilla-approved software. In order to retain control of your
> own choices, you must switch browsers (either to Icecat or similar or
> else to the nightly developer edition).