Apple CEO Tim Cook warns that regulatory policy changes could make iPhones less safe

Apple Inc (NYSE: AAPL) CEO Tim Cook warned on Tuesday that steps taken by policymakers to let apps circumvent the App Store would make the iPhones less safe.

Lawmakers have pushed Apple to make the iPhone more accessible to third-party developers to promote competition.

At the International Association of Privacy Professionals' summit in Washington, D.C., Cook said that the "policymakers are taking steps, in the name of competition, that would force Apple to let apps onto the iPhone that circumvent the App Store through a process called sideloading."

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