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Everybody complains about the walled garden, but damn I love to see things like this.
Doesn't Apple track every app you install, access and run? Track you if you want to develop your own code for your own fully paid for device?
Do you have a source on the them tracking every app a user runs? Obviously they have to collect every app I install for updates and subscriptions, but collecting every run might be too much.
Everybody complains about the walled garden, but damn I love to see things like this.
Doesn't Apple track every app you install, access and run? Track you if you want to develop your own code for your own fully paid for device?
No one is claiming Apple is perfect, but this is a marked improvement of apps requiring tracking to function.
Same thing here. Say I dont want to be tracked, apps should think I have allowed access and go ahead. Why should they tailor access based on my permission to track ? My installing the app is proof I want to use the app. I just dont want it to be tied to anything. Kinda like the original "sandbox" idea
Such things are never going to come to Android are they? Every preinstalled app abuses every permission possible
With iOS, the closed source OS and lack of alternatives fundamentally means that Apple Inc. gets to secretly violate your privacy while they play the moral high ground.
Ultimately the best security comes when you, the user, control the device AND the OS.
EDIT: Apple fanboys downvoting me again, eh? You worship Apple or something that would never do something wrong (ha)? Enjoy your HN echo chamber.
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I find that policy entirely acceptable, for the same reasons I think shrink-wrap EULAs should be illegal. This makes me curious about Apple and iOS / OS X. Does Apple try to require that the user accepts an EULA for the OS after buying Apple hardware?
Yes, they do. On the Mac, at least for the longest time, they put a sticker on the shrink wrap for the device that said something to the effect of "By using this device, you agree to the terms of Software License Agreement found at apple.com/legal/sla". Of course, if you didn't agree with that you could return the device or install Windows/Linux, but on the iPhone (which won't activate without agreeing), you can't si…
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Doesn't Apple track every app you install, access and run? Track you if you want to develop your own code for your own fully paid for device?
> Doesn't Apple track every app you install, access and run? Do you have a source on the them tracking every app a user runs? Obviously they have to collect every app I install for updates and subscriptions, but collecting every run might be too much.
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Doesn't Apple track every app you install, access and run? Track you if you want to develop your own code for your own fully paid for device?
That really does seem like whataboutism. No one is claiming Apple is perfect, but this is a marked improvement of apps requiring tracking to function.
Full text of the clause: > 3.2.2 Unacceptable > (vi) Apps should allow a user to get what they’ve paid for without performing additional tasks, such as posting on social media, uploading contacts, checking in to the app a certain number of times, etc. Apps should not require users to rate the app, review the app, watch videos, download other apps, tap on advertisements, enable tracking, or take other similar actions…
Doesn't youtube, with its ads, violate this policy?
Furthermore you can skip ads on YouTube after a 5-second timer, so this seems reasonably fair, though I would still not install it and recommend everyone to just use the web with a content blocker extension (AdGuard) or a third-party frontend like Invidious (https://github.com/iv-org/invidious).
Full text of the clause: > 3.2.2 Unacceptable > (vi) Apps should allow a user to get what they’ve paid for without performing additional tasks, such as posting on social media, uploading contacts, checking in to the app a certain number of times, etc. Apps should not require users to rate the app, review the app, watch videos, download other apps, tap on advertisements, enable tracking, or take other similar actions…
I find that policy entirely acceptable, for the same reasons I think shrink-wrap EULAs should be illegal. This makes me curious about Apple and iOS / OS X. Does Apple try to require that the user accepts an EULA for the OS after buying Apple hardware?
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> Doesn't Apple track every app you install, access and run? Do you have a source on the them tracking every app a user runs? Obviously they have to collect every app I install for updates and subscriptions, but collecting every run might be too much.
Don't they verify executables for this reason? Do they provide info about whether they log this process?