Rules always existed and were clear. Outrage that they are being enforced seems strange.
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No, not strange, selective enforcement is what's strange.
In London, it's illegal to shake rugs in the street. If police actually starts prosecuting people for that, and not all people but just bald ones, it's natural that people won't be happy and start asking questions about the anti-bald bias.
> No, not strange, selective enforcement is what's strange.
It's not strange at all, and in fact it's unavoidble. Rules and laws have always been enforced with discretion because of external considerations like limited resources, proportionality, mercy, prioritization, etc.
The argument in the post isn't that the enforcement is unfair, more that the rule might not make sense much longer now that software can write itself. Rule was written for a world where the artifact reviewed and the artifact running were the same thing. That assumption is breaking, and not just for vibe-coding apps.
The argument is silly, dev tools that allow you to run code were never allowed. There is no selective enforcement here and nothing has changed doesn’t matter if the code was written by a human or not.
Apple doesn't want software that can write itself available on its app store. I don't want software that can write itself running on my device. So for once Apple's priorities and the consumer's align.
The outrage isn't about the rule. It's about the sudden decision to choose bureaucracy over common sense.
Sudden decision? This looks completely in-line with what Apple has been doing since the launch of the iPhone.
I find the article most charitable to the idea that AI generated software is a different category than human generated software. It's merely a dev tool.
Not AI generated software -- DYNAMICALLY generated software, like at run time and ongoing. Even in-app directed by the user. This is not a thing that existed before, a degree of customizability well beyond letting the user pick a color scheme or from one of a few layouts or default start screens.
I don't know how good of an idea it would be, product-wise, to give programming level flexibility. I am reminded of greasemonkey scripts, but written in english maybe. Maybe it could be awesome. But Apple is saying "nope. Not interested in exploring this with you. BYE"
Thank god there is at least one major platform preventing applications from doing this. I get in a perfect world this would be great, but we live in a world where we use apps built by corporations which do not have the user's interests at heart and their apps that we begrudgingly use are treated as practically antagonistic.
> Not AI generated software -- DYNAMICALLY generated software, like at run time and ongoing.
They don't allow general purpose software interpreters on their platform for the purpose of distributing apps. This is not new. AI adds nothing meaningful here.
Maybe it could, but I don't want it on my phone, and I like the fact that I have at least some confidence that an app I install isn't that.
If I don't want Instagram on my phone should Apple ban Instagram?
Good.