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I don't see the problem. It was an app specifically developed to help people evade American law and attack people who work for the government, how is it a shock that they took it down?
Apple maps tells you when you are near a cop on the highway in order to evade the law.
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And it won't affect their branding in any relevant way. As "Amusing Ourselves to Death"[1] would explain, what almost all Apple consumers want is just FaceBook, WhatsApp, memes and games. Anything else is "boooring!". We live in an Idiocracy[2]. Deal with it. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amusing_Ourselves_to_Death [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idiocracy
I've started buying refurb, and will be heavily considering my upcoming electronics purchases. I encourage others to reduce consumption from companies which kowtow to this dangerous administration's demands and rhetoric. I've been boycotting Amazon as best I can for nearly a decade though since they had ambulances outside their warehouses and delivery workers pissing in gatorade bottles but reducing consumption of to…
I might be wrong, though. But this was the initial conclusion I arrived at when I was researching whether to buy an iPhone 17, iPhone 15 Pro (used) or Android phone. Only the last option would probably hurt Apple directly. And only a liiiiiittle.
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What purpose outside abetting in avoiding a DUI is there for publishing a live map of DUI checkpoints? I’m not questioning whether you should be able to do it. I’m really curious.
Here are some possibilities: * You don't want your trip to be delayed * You object to police checkpoints in principle * You or your friends or family have had negative experiences with law enforcement, so you prefer to minimize contact * You share a car with family members, one of whom smoked cannabis in it; the smell will result in an extended detention and investigation at a checkpoint * Your license/registration/i…
"I want to avoid interacting with the cops because I committed other crimes they might punish me for" is not a good argument.
This was the correct move from apple. Tools like this used to crowdsource location data of law enforcement can be used for malicious purposes.
Checkout quasar.dev
Well why do you need an app store for this? Can't you just ... I donnow ... create a webpage with OpenStreetMap integration?
Well why do you need an app store for this? Can't you just ... I donnow ... create a webpage with OpenStreetMap integration?
I'm not saying it is the case, but considering other tactics employed by ICE, this sounds like something they could deploy as a honeypot to profile potential targets.
This was the correct move from apple. Tools like this used to crowdsource location data of law enforcement can be used for malicious purposes.
But it's also just plain overbroad: the same logic applies to Waze flagging of speed traps, which are also "crowd sourced law enforcement location data".
Basically this is bunk. The app got banned because the government doesn't want its enforcement actions disrupted by protestors, and whined[1] to Apple to coerce them into a ban.
[1] Plausibly threatened. It's not alleged here but they did it to Disney and Paramount already.