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Subject: Re: A good thing or a bad thing
Date: 11 Apr 2025 15:36:41 GMT
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On 2025-04-11, Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> wrote:
> Arno Welzel <usenet@arnowelzel.de> wrote:
>> Frank Slootweg, 2025-04-09 17:35:
>> 
>> > Arno Welzel <usenet@arnowelzel.de> 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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