Re: Nearly, but no
Surely you can pull your phone out and record the screen of a company provided device as well?
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In this case Amazon is using the rule to allow investment into services to be offset against their tax bill (in the US at any rate). An intentional tax rule designed to encourage businesses to invest and create bigger businesses employing more people. Amazon are fairly unique in the amount of their potential profit they don't actually hand to share holders but plough back into the business to make it grow even more.
I still don't quite understand this though. The mechanism is to detect whether code has been tampered with. You do not need a developer account to sign anything and can basically sign yourself with blank details. Another person could re-sign the code themselves if they wanted to as well. In what way would or could Apple prevent this code from being run?
As for not being able to download code from GitHub and compiling it - that isn't the case. It will simply create and sign the code with an ad-hoc signature during compile time.
Also how does this differ from say Microsoft or Apple preventing programs from running which have been flagged by Defender/XProtect.
Less than half the battery capacity, a low res screen, slower ram and storage which is about a quarter of the speed if not less than what you are comparing too. It might well represent great value for money and give much more performance per £ in your opinion but comparable it is not.