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It really sucks that in addition to taking away the ability for users to make their own decisions and tradeoffs with respect to functionality vs data usage and battery life this also forces developers to build systems that are centralized in ways that undermine user privacy and create easy-to-block bottlenecks :/.



WRONG WRONG WRONG - see below

Note that enterprises, and expert users, can still provision a custom push profile that routes these notifications through their own hosted push server rather than through Apple’s. This is not useful for App Store users, but App Store users are also not likely to know or care about this change.


So in your "CORRECT CORRECT CORRECT" version of the world, every single person who wants to make a VoIP call will have to buy an Apple developer account and set up a "custom push profile" with a "their own hosted push server" (which I guess I will assume is truly hosted and doesn't go through Apple, even though that feels unlikely to me) that the other person will have to install on their phone first in order to make an end-to-end encrypted phone call? I hope you understand that this is even worse than just having a centralized signaling server, and is "complete bullshit".


I don't agree with what you wrote, but that's as far as I can figure out how to respond, sorry.


Can you provide a link to more information on this capability? It sounds very useful, but I cannot find anything about it in Apple's documentation.


Aw, hell, I misunderstood for YEARS. You can run your own local listener, but it delivers to devices through APN. Sorry.




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