> Can't reference a leak or incident specifically, but when Foxconn (a massive company with 3/4 million employees) had workers jumping from their dormitories and installed "suicide nets" the headlines were always "Apple factory..." - and I checked multiple sites at the time. Even though quite literally every single piece of major western technology is assembled in Foxconn factories.

Apple chose Foxconn. It won't get to choose the third parties implementing alternative translation apps. That's the point.

I see that I wasn't specific, but I thought it's obvious given the context.

> And about 3rd party translation AI systems. Of course _I_ won't install suspicious ones, but how do you make sure Auntie Liz won't?

I think you are switching topics from allowing other vendors to use Apple-only APIs to "sideloading".

Educate her. (yes, that's not Apple's responsibility, and they don't even try. We need people to understand what applications can do when installed on a smartphone or a computer. It's a national education issue IMO). If she can't take care of herself anymore - parental controls.

I see the point in having some entity verify legitimacy of applications, but it does not need to be only Apple/Google, like with TLS.