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by jnhnum1 5243 days ago
The problem is with the hypothesis that Apple would stay impartial and fight attempts by government to abuse revocation. This is highly unrealistic, and we've already seen Apple use the App Store policies to keep competitors' apps out (Google voice for a long time, 3rd party browsers, ...), calling them "redundant functionality".
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I think that even if you add up all of Apple's indiscretions so far (and I agree with you they've made mistakes), you'd find the number to be small, and the number still outstanding even smaller. It's not going to be a perfectly smooth ride, but as long as disabling signature verification is an option users will be able to work around Apple's obtuseness in situations like this until they're resolved.
As long as no one comments out that checkbox, we still have a general purpose computer...