• Re: Why Apple should provide standalone updates for native iOS apps

    From Andy Burnelli@21:1/5 to nospam on Tue Jan 25 18:43:24 2022
    XPost: misc.phone.mobile.iphone, comp.sys.mac.system

    On Tue, 25 Jan 2022 13:31:46 -0500, nospam wrote:

    ios does not use a 'primitive monolithic mechanism'.

    You don't even understand your own primitive operating system, nospam.
    *Why I believe the Android version doesn't matter as much as some people*
    *(aka iKooks) think it does*
    <https://groups.google.com/g/misc.phone.mobile.iphone/c/pT9BaEaf09Y>

    a. Apple didn't find their own bugs (they almost never do)
    b. The researchers reported them to Apple (long ago)
    c. Finally, the researchers gave up on Apple (and published them)

    Only then, after the researchers gave up on Apple and published the flaws,
    did Apple even _bother_ to fix them (they're serious flaws by all accounts).

    Yet...

    Apple _can't_ ship the fixes until they assemble an entire new iOS release! Worse, Apple _still_ hasn't done that yet.

    So _billions_ of iOS devices are exposed to full control by hackers using a public exposed flaw that Apple has fixed internally, but can't ship yet.

    All because iOS has a primitive monolithic clusterfuck release mechanism.
    --
    No other operating system uses the primitive iOS monolithic clusterfuck.

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