we don’t modify and distribute your application code without your knowledge and approval º Notably, this person used “don’t” and “will not”… as opposed to

we don’t modify and distribute your application code without your knowledge and approval º Notably, this person used “don’t” and “will not”… as opposed to “can’t” and “cannot” º So the next stage in the plan for the tech giants is to now take control over all our software applications and really lock them down too? With locked iDevices and smartphones that don't allow you to install the system software you want, that can be crippled and made unusable by the manufacturers, and have nearly unrepairable hardware (with lobbying opposing right-to-repair legislations), the tech giants have ensured that we have already lost control over our hardware devices. Today we only "own" them in name. The article highlights a real worry - It is not at all far fetched to believe that by wrapping apps with their own proprietary codes, the tech giants can control and steal our app data (a very likely goal of all the tech giants) and even modify the apps to cripple them or convert it to a malware (at the behest of over-reaching governments). This just adds to my worry, and ire, at App Stores, and provides a new perspective of them I had never considered before. º https://commonsware.com/blog/2020/09/23/uncomfortable-questions-app-signing.html https://commonsware.com/blog/2020/09/23/uncomfortable-questi... .