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I think you got that wrong. They allowed Uber to use the private API that allowed screen recording. Apple didn't record the activity and send it to Uber.
by emsy 8y ago
I think you got that wrong. They allowed Uber to use the private API that allowed screen recording. Apple didn't record the activity and send it to Uber.
- pdimitar 8y agoThanks for the correction. You are right. Still doesn't make it better though, wouldn't you agree?
- saagarjha 8y agoSlightly, I’d say. The reason why Apple granted that entitlement was because the Apple Watch API wasn’t powerful enough to perform some of the rendering that Uber needed for their watch app, so they’d render it on iOS and send it over in order to have an app available on launch day. The irresponsibility is that Apple didn’t immediately revoke such access once they developed a replacement API for this use case.
- pdimitar 8y agoAll of that definitely makes sense. It just makes me afraid what possibilities does that open for Apple and any other corp they are willing to scratch of back of. :( It also makes you wonder what other kinds of these "entitlements" exist.
- saagarjha 8y agoAs far as entitlements go, I don’t think there are any others that Apple has given out. Private API, though, has been approved by Apple for use in certain apps.