Re: phone migration

badgolferman wrote on Sun, 21 Jul 2024 17:09:48 -0000 (UTC) :

I don't disagree with most of what you said. I haven't done this in
years, but when I used the older version of iTunes, I was able to extract
and save the unsupported or older version of an IPA and restore it to a new
phone.  The one problem with that was if I wanted to keep an older version
of an app, the App Store always tried to update it with a newer version.
That means the App Store icon badge would always show a number and that's
annoying to me.

No rationally sensible person would disagree with the facts as I said them
simply because only a fool disagrees with facts (that's why they're fools).

The fact is that iOS deletes the installer after installation, by default.
Windows & Android do not delete the installer (APK/EXE) after installation.

Only zealots such as Jolly Roger or Alan Browne would disagree with fact.
The interesting thing is to ascertain *why* zealots disagree with facts.

Since I study these strange religious zealots, I think it's because they
*hate* that Apple never is what they thought Apple was supposed to be.

But we'd have to ask the zealots why they lied that iMazing can magically
create IPAs out of thin air that no longer exist on the App Store.

Even worse than Apple or developers forcing you to upgrade and lose
favorite features, is Microsoft moving to subscription services where you
have to rent programs like Office and such. It won't be long before Apple
follows suit.

I will never disagree with a sensible and logical viewpoint, where
Microsoft going to the subscription model is their way of increasing
revenue for products such as Microsoft Office.

Mot of these products don't really change all that much, release to
release, so the older releases work fine for personal use most of the time.

I, for one, am perfectly happy with Microsoft Office 7 which works fine for
me on my desktop at home - and I'm also fine with Adobe Acrobat 6 (writer).

The only software I buy every year is TurboTax, and even that can be done
for free (but my taxes are complicated so they require at least the
TurboTax Deluxe version which Costco sells every December at a discount).

Back to the topic, phone migration, luckily, on both platforms, is pretty
easy but the main thing wrong with iOS is that you can't install an IPA
that no longer exists on the App Store - whereas with Windows & Android,
you can (simply because the installer is always saved by default).

That's a *huge* difference between Apple's iOS and all other common OS's.