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If the intent was data harvesting, why the hell did they not actually send data that was useful to harvest? If they wanted to harvest data, they would have sent your Apple ID or device identifier along with the app hash.

They didn't.

Either they are just completely, blitheringly incompetent, or: They actually, truly, didn't intend to harvest any data.

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Who's to say they won't add that in future as a new "security feature" - especially now that they are "fixing" this issue by encrypting the calls home. Apple is a master of shifting consumer norms, behaviours and expectations over the long term using this boil the frog slowly approach.

Then you can complain when they do that. In theory, they can add any tracking anywhere in the OS they want. But until they actually do so, complaining about it is somewhat inane.

I'm complaining now.

Yes, that is the part that is inane.

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