I have the same question. I still have the mentality of my computer as a digital hub, and also I like to keep backups of all of my apps for whichever devices they ultimately are destined for.In the WWDC talk there was a mention of Xcode Server being able to keep a complete copy of the app and doing the thinning locally. Perhaps the same functionality could be built into a future version of iTunes? I would think that iTunes would *have* to get a complete copy of each app, otherwise how would the store know which versions it will need to send? If I connect a new device to my Mac, I really would hate to have to fetch new copies of all of my apps...Of course the App Store would still have to do the compiling of all versions to send to iTunes, since the new upload format is some kind of bytecode (as I understand it). And I doubt *that* functionality would be added to iTunes.
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App & System Services
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Core OS
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