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

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On 2025-04-21 15:06, Marion wrote:
> 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.)
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> 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?

It DOES appear, you simpleton.

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What does $0 zero dollars mean in Apple app store terminology? Marion <marion@facts.com> - 2025-04-19 02:04 +0000
  Re: What does $0 zero dollars mean in Apple app store terminology? Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com> - 2025-04-18 19:28 -0700
  Re: What does $0 zero dollars mean in Apple app store terminology? Chris <ithinkiam@gmail.com> - 2025-04-19 10:54 +0000
  Re: What does $0 zero dollars mean in Apple app store terminology? Chris <ithinkiam@gmail.com> - 2025-04-19 11:07 +0000
  Re: What does $0 zero dollars mean in Apple app store terminology? Zaidy036 <Zaidy036@air.isp.spam> - 2025-04-19 10:36 -0400
  Re: What does $0 zero dollars mean in Apple app store terminology? Tyrone <none@none.none> - 2025-04-19 22:42 +0000
    Re: What does $0 zero dollars mean in Apple app store terminology? Marion <marion@facts.com> - 2025-04-21 20:53 +0000
      Re: What does $0 zero dollars mean in Apple app store terminology? Tyrone <none@none.none> - 2025-04-21 21:55 +0000
        Re: What does $0 zero dollars mean in Apple app store terminology? Marion <marion@facts.com> - 2025-04-21 22:06 +0000
          Re: What does $0 zero dollars mean in Apple app store terminology? Tyrone <none@none.none> - 2025-04-21 22:40 +0000
            Re: What does $0 zero dollars mean in Apple app store terminology? Marion <marion@facts.com> - 2025-04-22 02:49 +0000
              Re: What does $0 zero dollars mean in Apple app store terminology? Tyrone <none@none.none> - 2025-04-22 12:41 +0000
              Re: What does $0 zero dollars mean in Apple app store terminology? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2025-04-22 16:07 +0000
          Re: What does $0 zero dollars mean in Apple app store terminology? Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com> - 2025-04-21 18:08 -0700
            Re: What does $0 zero dollars mean in Apple app store terminology? Tyrone <none@none.none> - 2025-04-22 12:46 +0000
              Re: What does $0 zero dollars mean in Apple app store terminology? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2025-04-22 16:08 +0000
      Re: What does $0 zero dollars mean in Apple app store terminology? Chris <ithinkiam@gmail.com> - 2025-04-22 06:31 +0000
        Re: What does $0 zero dollars mean in Apple app store terminology? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2025-04-22 16:09 +0000
          Re: What does $0 zero dollars mean in Apple app store terminology? Marion <marion@facts.com> - 2025-04-22 16:37 +0000
            Re: What does $0 zero dollars mean in Apple app store terminology? Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com> - 2025-04-22 09:50 -0700
            Re: What does $0 zero dollars mean in Apple app store terminology? Chris <ithinkiam@gmail.com> - 2025-04-22 19:45 +0000
              Re: What does $0 zero dollars mean in Apple app store terminology? Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com> - 2025-04-22 12:46 -0700
            Re: What does $0 zero dollars mean in Apple app store terminology? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2025-04-22 21:27 +0000

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