> sometimes take tens of minutes each time you only do that for the final build. It does prevent unscrupulous malware distributors, since there's now a paper t

> sometimes take tens of minutes each time you only do that for the final build. It does prevent unscrupulous malware distributors, since there's now a paper trail linking it back to you if you did bad. Of course, this could be abused by apple to gatekeep, and it doesn't prevent the user from downloading the app and bypassing this security measure (so does not in actual fact stop all malware).