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Uber has millions of people who use and love the service. Yanking the app without notice doesn't just punish the company it punishes those users. Working with U
by harryh 10y ago
Uber has millions of people who use and love the service. Yanking the app without notice doesn't just punish the company it punishes those users. Working with Uber to get the issue fixed without punishing innocent bystanders is good policy.
- maxerickson 10y agoHence my description of the move as pragmatic. The thing you leave out is that inflicting the inconvenience on the users would have increased the chances of the users understanding what Uber had been doing.
- harryh 10y agoWhy would most users care that Uber was slightly evading some privacy rules to prevent drivers from executing fraudulent rides?
- maxerickson 10y agoThey probably don't. Look at my first comment. I said "It'd be nice". It wasn't a comment about what would be good for Apple or bad for Uber or anything like that, it was just a remark about how I see it.
- macspoofing 10y agoBut it wouldn't be nice. It would be terrible for everyone involved, Apple, Uber, Uber/Apple customers.
- maxerickson 10y agoThe immediate effect would be unpleasant for users. Longer term I think it is harder to say.
- macspoofing 10y agoI cannot think of a scenerio where adding a little flexibility would be detrimental. Maybe in the cases of personal safety or food quality or something to that effect. But giving a company a chance to fix their mistake before yanking them is a good policy.
- rmc 10y agoi.e. One, weaker, rule for popular apps, one stronger rule for the little people.
- harryh 10y agoIt's not about the app developers one way or the other. It's about the end users. What is best for them decides the course of action no matter how it effects app developers of any size. That's the one rule. For everyone.