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Open sourcing wouldn't help that much with trust on iOS, I think, because you can not install the app by compiling it yourself. You still have to trust that the version in the app store is the same as the open source version.


Not to nitpick, but anyone in the iOS developer program can do just that - compile and run their own binaries.

Alternately, jailbreak.

It's not like it's impossible (or even expensive).


I think it costs 100$ (per year?), a lot more than the average app.

But point taken - maybe for iOS developers, an OSS version would increase trust.


you could diff the binaries though


Signed binaries? Nope


strip the signature then? (os x devtools include a command line tool that can do that)




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