XPost: comp.sys.mac.system, alt.comp.os.windows-10, comp.mobile.android   
   From: jollyroger@pobox.com   
      
   On 2025-04-11, Frank Slootweg  wrote:   
   > Arno Welzel  wrote:   
   >> Frank Slootweg, 2025-04-09 17:35:   
   >>   
   >> > Arno Welzel  wrote:   
   >> >> Marion, 2025-04-07 22:34:   
   >> >>   
   >> >> [...]   
   >> >>> 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.   
   >> >>>   
   >> >>> 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.   
   >> >>   
   >> >> 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?   
   >   
   >   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 ...".   
      
   I've been backing up my iOS app IPAs for years, and have every version   
   going back to around 2008 archived. Apparently what I am doing is   
   impossible or something. What have I been doing wrong all this time?   
      
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