XPost: misc.phone.mobile.iphone   
   From: marianjones@helpfulpeople.com   
      
   Tom Elam wrote:   
   >> Only iOS embeds identity-bound metadata into delivered free app packages.   
   >> Why?   
   >   
   > Are you EVER going to realize that 99.9999999% of iPhone owners will   
   > never read any of your posts? Or, if they stumbled across you they would   
   > not understand or give a care?   
   >   
   > Face it, you are pissing a weak stream into a Cat 5 hurricane.   
      
   Hi Tom Elam,   
      
   Happy New Year!   
      
   The goal of this thread is to UNDERSTAND how iOS works. '   
      
   It doesn't matter that 1 in a million understand anything about iOS.   
   What matters is WE understand iOS.   
      
   Because we're intelligent well-informed intellectually-curious people.   
   This is simply a discussion so we all better understand how iOS works.   
      
   Did you ever wonder why only iOS adds your identity to every app you   
   install? Windows doesn't do that. Android doesn't do it. Linux doesn't   
   either. Even macOS doesn't do it. Yup. Only iOS embeds your identity into   
   every app.   
      
   Doesn't that make you wonder why iOS does it but macOS doesn't do it?   
      
   Hint: It turns out that macOS predates the App Store and therefore, try as   
   they might, Apple cannot lock it down without destroying the platform.   
      
   What's different is iOS was designed from day one to:   
    a. block sideloading   
    b. block competing app stores   
    c. enforce Apple's payment system (even for free apps!)   
    d. enforce Apple's signing (disregarding developer signing)   
    e. enforce Apple's DRM (even for free apps!)   
    f. enforce Apple's control   
      
   No other common consumer operating system but iOS embeds your identity into   
   every app you install. Why do you think Apple does that, but only for iOS?   
   --   
   Intelligent people own the imagination to ask how a tool actually works.   
      
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