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Laptop and computers still is used as dominant for writing software including for mobile - you know software that could be infected. Still no collapse. Smartphones were not main device 10 years ago and people did bank transfers on laptop and world didn't collapse 10 years ago

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> Laptop and computers still is used as dominant for writing software including for mobile

Yes and infected Xcode and various SDKs you get on your laptop are actually the biggest threat to iOS security (other than just literally malicious devs). Devs torrenting an xcode and then infecting their users is a thing.

> Smartphones were not main device 10 years ago and people did bank transfers on laptop and world didn't collapse 10 years ago

See blackhats in infancy part...

> Yes and infected Xcode and various SDKs you get on your laptop are actually the biggest threat to iOS security (other than just literally malicious devs). Devs torrenting an xcode and then infecting their users is a thing.

Would it happen as often if the tooling was free?

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Xcode is free

So why are you talking about people torrenting it? Am I missing something?

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