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Why do apps need me to be authenticated against iTunes to work at all? I guarantee that someone would be screaming at Apple for not authenticating against iTun
by mootothemax 12y ago
Why do apps need me to be authenticated against iTunes to work at all?
I guarantee that someone would be screaming at Apple for not authenticating against iTunes under circumstance X, Y or Z.
I'm not sure whether it's better to be inconvenienced for a day, or for Apple to attempt to cover your back if something looks amiss in the iPhone's systems.
(which, from the sounds of your upgrade and hard crash, this may well be - or "simply" some form of empty cache)
It feels a bit like six of one, and half a dozen of the other, the painful bit being that ideology doesn't help you get your work done today!
- marincounty 12y agoI wouldn't scream at Apple if they backed off from protecting/micromanaging/dictating every aspect of the using their products.
- ninkendo 12y agoWhat if you were an app developer who had a paid app on the store? Would you want Apple to sit back while people pirated your app? Would you want to have to implement copy protection yourself? Do you think every app should do that?
- mikeash 12y agoiTunes authentication is just a DRM thing, making sure you've paid for apps before you can run them. Security is handled by code signing, and more importantly by sandboxing. The only people who would scream at Apple for not authenticating against iTunes are those who don't understand this, or those who think Apple needs to enforce strong DRM for third-party apps.