[angott]

They're probably referring to the certificate verification that happens when you open any notarized application. Unless something changed recently, the system phones home to ensure its certificate wasn't revoked.

[astrange]

It doesn't do that on every app launch; there's a cache. It does it on the first launch of a binary from a new team.

(So multiple binaries with the same team don't check either.)

And I'd expect all logging is disabled on the CDN.

[jq-r]

It does kind of suck if the binary is frequently updated, big and you have a slow internet connection. So some program which normally takes seconds to open can take 20 or more seconds to open after an update. Or if you don't use that program frequently, you always get a very slow start of a program.

[FireBeyond]

I have no reason to expect that it is.