Google product manager asks Apple to open iPhones to private personal apps
Dmitry Lyalin says AI has made small apps cheap to build, while Apple's distribution system still treats every creator like a publisher.
By Ryan Merket · Published
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Why it matters
AI coding is shifting the bottleneck from writing software to safely distributing it. Apple risks pushing personal micro-apps to the web unless iOS gains a durable private-sharing tier.
Dmitry Lyalin (@LyalinDotCom), the Google product manager who leads Gemini CLI, asked Apple on July 28th to create a secure way for people to install and update private iPhone apps made for family members and small groups.…
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