Re: What does $0 zero dollars mean in Apple app store terminology?

On Mon, 21 Apr 2025 21:55:16 +0000, Tyrone wrote :
 

(I find it hilarious that iOS is the least private operating system on the
planet, and yet, Apple touts that it's privacy oriented. It's all lies.)

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It is very secure.

 We've had these discussions on this newsgroup so many times I can't count,
where "privacy" & "security" are completely different things in reality.
 It's a fact that no mobile operating system has more exploits day in and
day out than does iOS, so for anyone to claim iOS is secure, is absurd.
  <https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog>
 Likewise, it's even more absurd for anyone to claim iOS is more "private"
than Android, given you can't even run any privacy based tools on iOS.
     <https://support.torproject.org/tormobile/tormobile-3/>
     "Can I run Tor Browser on an iOS device? Apple requires all
      browsers on iOS to use something called Webkit,
      which prevents any iOS browser from having the same privacy
      protections as Tor Browser."
 Anyone who claims iOS is more secure or more private than Android knows
absolutely nothing about iOS or Android - as it's Apple's really big lie.
 

As for iOS being "normal UNIX", Chris & Tyrone already proved last week
that iOS is anything but normal UNIX when it comes to privileged ports.

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Um, I am Tyrone.

 Oh. Yeah. I don't even L@@K at the headers since I don't use a newsreader.
All I see is the original message in gvim on Windows due to my scripts.
The only way I know whom I'm replying to is if I look at the attribute.
 Sorry about that. I actually thought it was Zaidy I was responding to.
 

And there is no law about "privileged ports". Companies are free to do
whatever they want. Android could easily be doing this also.  Which would mean
that you would be no longer hung up about "privileged ports".

 In fact, I'm *happy* that, for once, iOS is better'n Android in something.
 You don't know how ecstatic I am that I can sit at the PC and from the PC,
I can copy files back & forth between iOS & Windows using the command line.
 What I don't understand yet is the iOS share appears as a drive letter on
the Windows command line - but it doesn't show up as a drive in the Windows
file explorer. It would be fantastic if the share showed up in the GUI.
 I never said I was a networking expert.
I have no idea why it's a drive letter on the command line but not the GUI.
 Does anyone have any idea why not?