Path: eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Alan Newsgroups: misc.phone.mobile.iphone,comp.sys.mac.system,comp.mobile.ipad Subject: Re: phone migration Date: Sun, 21 Jul 2024 18:58:28 -0700 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 38 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2024 03:58:29 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="06b200e89d114aaed6d5217b54c6ad38"; logging-data="491008"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+ETwx4HlIs4OeHmIHTUeCHhYDKoV7wQ/U=" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:zW/j6ikEUViQLeASbWIsnqzMSRQ= Content-Language: en-CA In-Reply-To: On 2024-07-21 18:48, Andrew wrote: > Jolly Roger wrote on 21 Jul 2024 22:24:01 GMT : > >>> Let's not belabor that Jolly Roger brazenly lied that iMazing had the >>> amazing power to create an old IPA out of thin air >> >> Anyone reading this thread knows well I never said any such thing. You >> and your little lap dog badgolferman may think telling brazen lies like >> this will fool others, but you're only shredding your own credibility in >> the eyes of others by doing so. You are both liars and neither of you >> has any credibility. A habitual liar and his cowardly little lap dog is >> what you are. > > Heh heh heh ... so you agree that with iOS if the app that you want to > migrate (or the version of that app) is no longer in the app store, then > the migration instantly fails. In other words, it just does not work. > > Unlike with iOS, on every other operating system NOT Apple, it just works. > >>> And you didn't have to store anything on someone else's server to do >>> it. >> >> I run my own servers, little Arlen. I have no need to use someone else's >> server for this. My IPAs could just as well be on my computer's hard >> drive - I choose to store them on a file server instead because they are >> archives and take up valuable space (2.5 TB and growing). > > The fact remains only iOS is so brain dead primitive stuck in the stone age > of computers that it's a dumb terminal that can't even migrate an IPA, JR. > > Only with the primitive dumb-terminal iOS design, if that app (or version) > is no longer on the App Store, the migration fails - and you know this, JR. Whether that is true or not, it has nothing to do with iOS being "primitive", Arlen. It may be a choice you don't like, but it says nothing about the quality of Apple's software.