Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Arno Welzel Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system,alt.os.linux,alt.comp.os.windows-10,comp.mobile.android Subject: Re: A good thing or a bad thing (Was: Tutorial: Working example of removing & re-installing Android system apps from a PC) Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2025 12:35:58 +0200 Lines: 44 Message-ID: References: <7u5lblxjel.ln2@Telcontar.valinor> <6rhvblxb0d.ln2@Telcontar.valinor> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net dDOKPUEBjdW9GuqScHSlsw6DPqKL+q5eZEgM9g7K8DUhZpEEKQ Cancel-Lock: sha1:LaX8NghngD80aaTakIvfBpS70BI= sha256:/Yba40kS9emn8MRpczUofJYjQmWgGNLrtPvULh/8Eew= Content-Language: en-US, de-DE In-Reply-To: Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.mac.system:145470 alt.os.linux:81327 alt.comp.os.windows-10:183410 comp.mobile.android:147714 Marion, 2025-04-08 12:25: > On Tue, 8 Apr 2025 19:19:39 +1000, Daniel70 wrote : > > >> Am I mis-reading what is being posted here?? >> >> Both Marion *AND* Carlos E.R. seem to be suggesting that *only* Apple >> locks a user into their/Apples system .... Other OSs/systems are not >> locking their users into THEIR OSs/Systems. >> >> Or am I mis-understanding what is being posted?? > > Assuming compatible hardware & operating system APIs... it's a fact that... > > 1. On Windows, Linux, Android & to some extent macOS, if you download > any installer (from anywhere), that installer can (almost always) > be re-used on any other similar machine (assuming compatible hardware). > > 2. On iOS, it can't. Which is irrelevant, since you do not copy the installer itself to another device as you can do in Linux or Windows. The usual way would be to use the App Store again to download and install the app again if needed. Even in Android it is not the usual way to copy APK files from one device to another if you change your device. Yes, technicall it *may* be possible - but only if the app was not distributed as AAB (Android application bundle) with device specific parts which may not even work on the other device due to different CPU architecture. But Google Play only provides the device specific APK not the AAB which was used by the publisher to upload the app in the first place. > The *reason* you can't re-use Apple IPAs is Apple locks the downloaded > software to a specific unique Apple ID so that it can only be installed on > devices with that specific unique Apple ID. Yes - so what? Nobody will or can even copy installer files from one iPhone or iPad to another to get them re-used with a different Apple ID. -- Arno Welzel https://arnowelzel.de