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These are hosted on Apple’s servers and digitally signed:
The headline feature is the built-in iOS App Store. In 12.6.3, you can browse, download, and update apps directly on your computer.
Security researchers use it to easily download app packages for analysis. itunes 12.6.3
https://secure-appldnld.apple.com/itunes12/091-87826-20170911-EF5F04FE-95A8-11E7-B37B-6966A319F29F6/iTunes64Setup.exe
Immediately following this release (starting with iTunes 12.7), Apple from iTunes, pushing all app management to the iOS device itself. These are hosted on Apple’s servers and digitally
While Apple intended for users to manage apps directly on their mobile devices, this change was problematic for:
Apple explicitly states that they do not provide technical support for this legacy version. https://secure-appldnld
occupies a unique and somewhat legendary status in the history of Apple software. It is widely considered the "last good version" of iTunes for a specific subset of users: those who want to manage their own media without streaming, and specifically, those who need the App Store back.