Re:AWS Device Farm adds support for iOS
by gruez on Wednesday August 05, 2015 @11:33PM
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Did they work with apple to create a custom version of iOS to integrate with amazon's service, or did amazon jailbreak the devices and installed their own hooks?
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Re:AWS Device Farm adds support for iOS
by babababa on Thursday August 06, 2015 @12:27AM
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It's probably not rooted, but it probably also violates Apple's developer license agreement (which are needlessly restrictive) - sections 2 and 3 in this doc:
https://developer.apple.com/programs/terms/ios/standard/ios_...
Re:AWS Device Farm adds support for iOS
by NateLawson on Thursday August 06, 2015 @01:27AM
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More importantly, what do they do to keep users from jailbreaking the device via software? Especially with Android, there are a lot of software root flaws and the privileged surface area is a lot bigger than the hypervisor AWS uses for EC2.
The summary makes it sound like they only wipe your app from the device, not reinstall the OS between users.
Re:AWS Device Farm adds support for iOS
by jakozaur on Thursday August 06, 2015 @04:55AM
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I believe it doesn't matter for 95%+ of users.
EC2 is used to run production services with sensitive data.
Most Android/iOS testing is done with made up data, without privileged access to production. So even if it get compromised, it probably not much different from installing an app on jailbreaked device be end user.