Crossover: 2014

Chapter 232 Data Security Above All (continued)
It's 2014, and you have to think about the security of software running on Apple devices.

After all, according to the normal timeline.

my country only approved a new cybersecurity law in 2016.

And according to the law, Apple is required to store customer data on local servers.

It was not until 2018 that Apple Cloud moved all the data to Guizhou/zhou on the cloud.

In 2014, Lin Hui felt that the current data security still faced great hidden dangers.

Even now, Lin Hui's applications are all offline.

But in the future, it will mainly involve some software that requires a lot of data.

So this question has to be thought about.

It is also difficult to count on negotiating with Apple to allow Apple to cancel similar terms on data that is easy to be used by others.

No matter in the previous life or in this life, Ping'er always has their self-righteous logic.

According to Apple:
"Apps are changing the world and enriching people's lives.

It also provides developers with unprecedented opportunities to innovate.

Apple mobile phone system has grown into an exciting and dynamic ecosystem.

Serving millions of developers and over a billion users.

Whether it's a novice developer or a large team of experienced programmers.

You are all very welcome to develop apps for the App Store.

I hope you will follow our guidelines to ensure your app can pass the review/review process quickly...”

Such an expression gives people the feeling that:

——We are very good at Apple, not only wanting users to be grandchildren, but also developers to be sons.

The super numerous review/review items are the pursuit of perfection at best.

To put it bluntly, it is an extremely abnormal and almost pathological desire to control.

Lin Hui has to be careful about the terms that may have different interpretations about the data.

If you want to add guilt, there is nothing to worry about.

It's okay to say now that some very important data are not involved.

But when it comes to important data, if Apple or someone behind Apple has some alternative schemes.

This is a threat that cannot be ignored.

Operating system with independent property rights

The above conjectures, when the malice did not really come, these may just be Lin Hui's imagination.

But Lin Hui didn't think this kind of consideration was superfluous.

Experienced the invisible war in the previous life that seemed to belong to the commercial category.

Lin Hui has always speculated about these crooked countries and overseas technology giants with the worst ideas.

For the benefit of these forces have never been willing to be lonely.

Rushing to place too many expectations on these people will suffer a big loss.

Perhaps the invisible battle in this world will not come as promised.

But it's always good to be prepared.

If it's just a personal conflict between Apple and Lin Hui.

There are two possibilities for the trouble Lin Hui will face at that time:

One is to take off the shelves of software applications that have already been running online.

Or some applications that are ready to go online are forced to be reviewed/reviewed and cannot be put on the shelves.

In both cases, it is more or less related to the audit/verification system.

In this case, if Lin Hui's main means of revenue is still through various software.

Then these two seemingly harmless possibilities for humans and animals can be said to be relatively harmless and extremely insulting to Lin Hui.

In this way, an application distribution method that can bypass Apple's review/nuclear mechanism is particularly important.

For example, even if the corporate signature has been issued by Apple, it is valid for about one year.

Although this cannot be done once and for all, it is enough to leave a certain buffer space for Lin Hui to deal with risks.

However, this kind of distribution with the privilege of using the same treatment as an enterprise-level account is only a stopgap measure.

In the future, we still have to develop an effective software distribution method by ourselves.

Lin Hui had already had this idea before.

It is completely possible to use the TestFlight distribution method as in the previous life.

Previous TestFlight is a very powerful testing software distribution tool.

Software developers can distribute applications to be tested to up to 10000 testers through the TestFlight application.

Developers only need to upload the Beta version software and use iTunes to add the tester's name and email address to complete the distribution task with little effort.

If such a powerful distribution mechanism is developed, not only Lin Hui has room for application.

It also has great commercial value.

After all, in many cases, the distribution qualification in the personal developer account is not enough at all.

Some people who want to distribute applications on a large scale and suffer from the lack of advanced signatures like enterprise development accounts are actually very uncomfortable.

In short, Lin Hui believes that if a distribution tool such as TestFlight is really developed, it will have great application prospects.

You must know that TestFlight was even called the second app store in the previous life.

Even if it doesn't get Apple's approval, TestFlight can't completely reproduce the success of this previous life, but it still has a chance to become its own series.

Of course, whether it is a higher-level signature for application distribution, or relying on a distribution tool like TestFlight.

In the final analysis, these still depend on Apple's operating system.

It is precisely because of this compromise that these two methods can only deal with small conflicts with Apple.

If a major conflict really breaks out, neither of these two methods full of compromises will be a long-term solution.

The long-term solution can only be to start from scratch.

——In the longer term, the safest way is to build an operating system with independent intellectual property rights in the country.

Only those with completely independent intellectual property rights are safe.

Although this kind of thinking will appear old-fashioned under the wave of globalization.

But judging from past life experience, sometimes rigid thinking is not a bad thing.

Having a gun/without using it and not grabbing it are two different things.

In short, Lin Hui, an operating system with independent property rights, must be developed.

People who know Lin Hui's deepest thoughts may question why Lin Hui didn't do it in one step and directly come up with the operating system?
Of course Lin Hui wanted to do it all in one go, but conditions did not allow it.

The resources that Lin Hui can deploy, whether it is material conditions or resource conditions (including but not limited to human resources, social resources, etc.), are not enough to support an operating system.

Lin Ash still has a long way to go.

Objectively speaking, the future is bright, but the road is tortuous.

……

Lin Hui only thought for a while, and did not neglect Elizabeth Nishi for too long.

I had a pretty good chat with Elizabeth Nishi during the day, and the two of them got along pretty well.

Still, it was already night.

Lin Hui had no intention of chatting too much with Elizabeth Nishi in private time.

After chatting for a few words, Lin Hui ended the call in good time.

In the developer account, Lin Hui received an official message from Apple:
"Dear developer GRAY FOREST, hello!
Because of your long-term good cooperation foundation with Apple.

It is a great honor that you have successfully joined the Apple (system level) software testing program...

After joining the program, your personal developer account will have a higher level of permissions.

Please log in again to view the corresponding permissions..."

"..."

(End of this chapter)