Jeez, I guess so. We're pretty far off track: when I wrote that "[app stores] don't make it possible to target users with malicious updates" up there, what I w

Jeez, I guess so. We're pretty far off track: when I wrote that "[app stores] don't make it possible to target users with malicious updates" up there, what I was talking about was that the app stores aren't giving Foo App's developers the power to push individualized malware to their users, which is a power that Foo App has through its own desktop autoupdater system. App stores raise the bar from "Foo App decides to own you" to "The DoJ is able to convince a company with the legal firepower of Apple to sign and deliver a backdoored version of someone else's app". This is.. not a small difference in user risk.