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by UncleMeat 1875 days ago
PITA, most likely. More round trips. More complexity. More work for the user. It also means that the bundling process cannot be improved and you can't extend it to support new configurations without the involvement of the user. There are a bazillion locales and device configurations out there, with more created every day.
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simfree 1875 days ago
Why not let the developer generate the tailored binaries in the first place?
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UncleMeat 1875 days ago
In some cases, there are 100+ artifacts. I'd wager that far more developers care about the extra effort correctly splitting and signing a mountain of artifacts than the hypothetical threat model described in TFA. And Google probably would prefer the less error-prone method of doing it internally rather than risking devs doing it wrong and shipping broken apps to some device configurations.
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