Re: A good thing or a bad thing

On 4/11/25 5:00 AM, Frank Slootweg wrote:

Arno Welzel <usenet@arnowelzel.de> wrote:

Frank Slootweg, 2025-04-09 17:35:
 

Arno Welzel <usenet@arnowelzel.de> wrote:

Marion, 2025-04-07 22:34:
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When an IPA is installed on an iOS device, it's signed with a
provisioning profile that is tied to a specific Apple Developer
account and a set of authorized devices. For apps downloaded from
the App Store, this process is managed by Apple and linked to your
Apple ID.
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All apps, even those which might be considered "free & open
source" suffer this process, since every single app ever
downloaded from Apple's App Store restricts their usage to the
Apple ID that originally downloaded them.

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Well - in that case this is irrelevant, since free apps can be
downloaded again from the original source.

   I have no beef in this (non-)discussion, but you can only download
again, if the "original source" still exists!

 Which also applies to Android. So what?

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 Ah! You now resort to lying by omission? In the (big) part you
'conveniently' silently snipped, I specificall said (amongst others)
"That's why I save Android APKs ...".
 So in the iOS case,

if the original source does no longer exist,
you're out of luck, but in the Android case, you can install the app
from it's backed up APK.

Sometimes I use an old backed up apk even when the Play Store and/or Amazon
 Appstore still has the app available because I like the old version better.
 Course I have to turn off the automatic app updates and do them manually, a
 bit of a PITA but then I've got lots of free time...